Ask HN: What are some words that you learned on Hacker News?
16 points by neilyio 1 year ago | 29 commentsI'll start. "Orthogonal".
- LinuxBender 1 year ago"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.
- perilunar 1 year agoCheck out the The World Bollard Association™ twitter account for photos and videos of vehicles getting caught up by bollards:
- perilunar 1 year ago
- krapp 1 year agoSurprised no one has mentioned "thither" as often as dang uses it.
Haven't seen "yon" yet.
- replwoacause 1 year ago“Your pricing is too high” and I learned them in that order too
- mtmail 1 year agomoat
- fragmede 1 year agoconfabulate - what LLMs do
- atleastoptimal 1 year agogrok
- austin-cheney 1 year agoCounter-intuitive
- defrost 1 year agoto viscerally delve into psephology .. !an AI
- gadders 1 year agoThat "nonce" has another meaning relating to cryptography.
- marssaxman 1 year agoWhat is the non-cryptographic meaning?
- gadders 1 year agoSecond sense here: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/nonce
- lucozade 1 year agoSlang for a paedophile
- marssaxman 1 year agoMy goodness. I never would have imagined that!
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- fuzztester 1 year ago"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
- tomcam 1 year agoConflate is seldom used correctly on HN. It means combine but now people use it when they mean confuse.
- fuzztester 1 year agoOh wow, didn't know that, thanks. Yes, I've mainly or only seen used it on HN in the sense of confuse, or mistake one thing or concept for another.
- giantg2 1 year agoActually, there are multiple definitions of conflate. One of these does have confuse as a synonym.
- tomcam 1 year agoYes. I should have been more precise and described it as a secondary definition (which has become the primary definition in recent years).
- tomcam 1 year ago
- fuzztester 1 year ago
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- silb 1 year agobifurcate
- tomcam 1 year agoTFA (the fucking article)
- zufallsheld 1 year agoAlternatively the fine article.
- tomcam 1 year agoHey! I like that much better. Thanks!
- tomcam 1 year ago
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- nachox999 1 year agowastimbolo
- piotrke 1 year ago'churn' and 'churn rate'
- perilunar 1 year ago"heteroscedasticity"
- nicbou 1 year ago“Order of magnitude”
- sturza 1 year agoenshitification
- nomoreban 1 year ago[flagged]