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

I'll start. "Orthogonal".

16 points | by neilyio 9 days ago

18 comments

  • LinuxBender 8 days 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.

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

  • krapp 8 days ago
    Surprised no one has mentioned "thither" as often as dang uses it.

    Haven't seen "yon" yet.

  • replwoacause 7 days ago
    “Your pricing is too high” and I learned them in that order too
  • mtmail 7 days ago
    moat
  • fragmede 8 days ago
    confabulate - what LLMs do
  • atleastoptimal 9 days ago
    grok
  • austin-cheney 6 days ago
    Counter-intuitive
  • defrost 9 days ago
    to viscerally delve into psephology .. !an AI
  • gadders 8 days ago
    That "nonce" has another meaning relating to cryptography.
  • silb 4 days ago
    bifurcate
  • fuzztester 9 days 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 8 days ago
      Conflate is seldom used correctly on HN. It means combine but now people use it when they mean confuse.
      • fuzztester 7 days ago
        Oh 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 6 days ago
        Actually, there are multiple definitions of conflate. One of these does have confuse as a synonym.
        • tomcam 6 days ago
          Yes. I should have been more precise and described it as a secondary definition (which has become the primary definition in recent years).
  • tomcam 8 days ago
    TFA (the fucking article)
    • zufallsheld 7 days ago
      Alternatively the fine article.
      • tomcam 7 days ago
        Hey! I like that much better. Thanks!
  • nachox999 7 days ago
    wastimbolo
  • piotrke 7 days ago
    'churn' and 'churn rate'
  • perilunar 9 days ago
    "heteroscedasticity"
  • nicbou 7 days ago
    “Order of magnitude”
  • sturza 7 days ago
    enshitification
  • nomoreban 9 days ago
    [flagged]