Ask HN: What are some words that you learned on Hacker News?
I'll start. "Orthogonal". "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. Check out the The World Bollard Association™ twitter account for photos and videos of vehicles getting caught up by bollards: Surprised no one has mentioned "thither" as often as dang uses it. 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 My goodness. I never would have imagined that! English thing, not American "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 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. Actually, there are multiple definitions of conflate. One of these does have confuse as a synonym. Yes. I should have been more precise and described it as a secondary definition (which has become the primary definition in recent years). bifurcate TFA (the fucking article) Alternatively the fine article. Hey! I like that much better. Thanks! wastimbolo 'churn' and 'churn rate' "heteroscedasticity" “Order of magnitude” enshitification