HN is a generalist forum. People who use specialized acronyms in threads here inconvenience the generalist HN user base. Just as we would expect researchers w

HN is a generalist forum. People who use specialized acronyms in threads here inconvenience the generalist HN user base. Just as we would expect researchers writing for specialist journals to write for their specialist audience, we should expect HN posters to write for the generalist HN audience.