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

I'll start. "Orthogonal".

16 points | by neilyio 24 days ago

18 comments

  • LinuxBender 23 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 23 days ago
    Surprised no one has mentioned "thither" as often as dang uses it.

    Haven't seen "yon" yet.

  • replwoacause 22 days ago
    “Your pricing is too high” and I learned them in that order too
  • mtmail 22 days ago
    moat
  • fragmede 23 days ago
    confabulate - what LLMs do
  • atleastoptimal 23 days ago
    grok
  • austin-cheney 21 days ago
    Counter-intuitive
  • defrost 23 days ago
    to viscerally delve into psephology .. !an AI
  • gadders 23 days ago
    That "nonce" has another meaning relating to cryptography.
  • fuzztester 23 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 22 days ago
      Conflate is seldom used correctly on HN. It means combine but now people use it when they mean confuse.
      • fuzztester 22 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 21 days ago
        Actually, there are multiple definitions of conflate. One of these does have confuse as a synonym.
        • tomcam 21 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).
  • silb 19 days ago
    bifurcate
  • tomcam 22 days ago
    TFA (the fucking article)
    • zufallsheld 21 days ago
      Alternatively the fine article.
      • tomcam 21 days ago
        Hey! I like that much better. Thanks!
  • nachox999 22 days ago
    wastimbolo
  • piotrke 22 days ago
    'churn' and 'churn rate'
  • perilunar 24 days ago
    "heteroscedasticity"
  • nicbou 21 days ago
    “Order of magnitude”
  • sturza 22 days ago
    enshitification
  • nomoreban 24 days ago
    [flagged]