Ask HN: What are some words that you learned on Hacker News?
I'll start. "Orthogonal".
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"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
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollard
Check out the The World Bollard Association™ twitter account for photos and videos of vehicles getting caught up by bollards:
https://twitter.com/WorldBollard
https://twitter.com/WorldBollard
Surprised no one has mentioned "thither" as often as dang uses it.
Haven't seen "yon" yet.
Haven't seen "yon" yet.
“Your pricing is too high” and I learned them in that order too
moat
confabulate - what LLMs do
grok
Counter-intuitive
to viscerally delve into psephology .. !an AI
That "nonce" has another meaning relating to cryptography.
What is the non-cryptographic meaning?
Second sense here: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/nonce
Slang for a paedophile
"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
"drunk the kool-aid" is another, though a phrase, not a word.
"cromulent" is another
Conflate is seldom used correctly on HN. It means combine but now people use it when they mean confuse.
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.
bifurcate
TFA (the fucking article)
wastimbolo
'churn' and 'churn rate'
"heteroscedasticity"
“Order of magnitude”
enshitification