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Ask HN: What are some words that you learned on Hacker News?

by neilyio on 4/24/24, 5:38 PM with 29 comments

I'll start. "Orthogonal".
  • by LinuxBender on 4/25/24, 2:29 PM

    "bollard" [1] - I always called them steel poles with concrete inside, buried in the ground. Someone here corrected me and I learned something. Adding to that I never associated them with the more artistic versions as I assumed those were weaker or just for looks.

    [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollard

  • by krapp on 4/25/24, 10:13 PM

    Surprised no one has mentioned "thither" as often as dang uses it.

    Haven't seen "yon" yet.

  • by replwoacause on 4/26/24, 8:40 PM

    “Your pricing is too high” and I learned them in that order too
  • by mtmail on 4/26/24, 7:56 PM

    moat
  • by fragmede on 4/25/24, 5:10 PM

    confabulate - what LLMs do
  • by atleastoptimal on 4/25/24, 8:23 AM

    grok
  • by austin-cheney on 4/27/24, 4:13 PM

    Counter-intuitive
  • by defrost on 4/25/24, 8:37 AM

    to viscerally delve into psephology .. !an AI
  • by gadders on 4/25/24, 10:51 AM

    That "nonce" has another meaning relating to cryptography.
  • by fuzztester on 4/25/24, 3:18 AM

    "conflating" is one that I did not know of earlier.

    "drunk the kool-aid" is another, though a phrase, not a word.

    "cromulent" is another

  • by silb on 4/29/24, 10:14 PM

    bifurcate
  • by tomcam on 4/26/24, 8:29 AM

    TFA (the fucking article)
  • by nachox999 on 4/26/24, 7:21 PM

    wastimbolo
  • by piotrke on 4/26/24, 9:29 PM

    'churn' and 'churn rate'
  • by perilunar on 4/25/24, 1:11 AM

    "heteroscedasticity"
  • by nicbou on 4/27/24, 6:41 AM

    “Order of magnitude”
  • by sturza on 4/26/24, 4:41 PM

    enshitification