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

  • "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

  • 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.

  • "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

  • bifurcate

  • TFA (the fucking article)

  • wastimbolo

  • 'churn' and 'churn rate'

  • "heteroscedasticity"

  • “Order of magnitude”

  • enshitification

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