No, not 99%. Why? Because a huge fraction, no doubt a huge majority, of the Hacker News audience concentrates on software. In more detail, a lot of the audie

No, not 99%. Why? Because a huge fraction, no doubt a huge majority, of the Hacker News audience concentrates on software. In more detail, a lot of the audience uses laptop computers, WiFi hubs, smartphones, etc. and never sees an integrated circuit, not even in its plastic box on a circuit board. I plugged together my most recent computer so saw the motherboard with its many integrated circuit packages, handled the integrated circuit of the processor, an AMD FX-8350, installed several adapter cards with their visible integrated circuit packages, etc. but still could not be sure about the meaning of "IC" in the title. Besides, making an integrated circuit at home is a rare and strange, also possibly interesting, thing. Again, computing needs to work really hard to avoid use of undefined jargon. Again, literally, even for the Hacker News audience, Homemade Ice Cream is more likely than Homemade Integrated Circuits Again, once again, over again, yet again, one more time, the biggest bottleneck, a real ball and chain, on progress in computing is bad technical writing, and undefined jargon is one of the worst parts. Again, ..., in essentially all the more important technical writing it is 101 level rock solidly standard always, no question, to expand acronyms. Right, there are some exceptions -- HTTP, HTML, URL, but the full list is short, and IC is not on it. Neither are JS, ASIC, CSS, ACL, OO, JSON, RSA, LDAP, CMIS/P, SMTP, SNMP, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and some hundreds more. There used to be CICS, IMS, MVS, VTAM, ISAM, VNET, SNA, IPL, RACF, CP67/CMS, VM, DB2, etc. which was priesthood jargon for some years but gone now. This is just a rock solid technical writing lesson 101. Accept it or not as you wish. Jargon is an insider thing, and everyone else gets irritated.