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Ask HN: What are some words that you learned on Hacker News?
I'll start. "Orthogonal".
- nomoreban 3y ago[flagged]
- perilunar 3y ago"heteroscedasticity"
- fuzztester 3y ago"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
- tomcam 3y agoConflate is seldom used correctly on HN. It means combine but now people use it when they mean confuse.
- fuzztester 3y agoOh 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.
- giantg2 3y agoActually, there are multiple definitions of conflate. One of these does have confuse as a synonym.
- tomcam 3y agoYes. I should have been more precise and described it as a secondary definition (which has become the primary definition in recent years).
- atleastoptimal 3y agogrok
- defrost 3y agoto viscerally delve into psephology .. !an AI
- gadders 3y agoThat "nonce" has another meaning relating to cryptography.
- marssaxman 3y agoWhat is the non-cryptographic meaning?
- gadders 3y agoSecond sense here: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/nonce https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/nonce
- lucozade 3y agoSlang for a paedophile
- marssaxman 3y agoMy goodness. I never would have imagined that!
- tomcam 3y agoEnglish thing, not American
- LinuxBender 3y ago"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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollard
- perilunar 3y agoCheck 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
- fragmede 3y agoconfabulate - what LLMs do
- krapp 3y agoSurprised no one has mentioned "thither" as often as dang uses it. Haven't seen "yon" yet.
- tomcam 3y agoTFA (the fucking article)
- zufallsheld 3y agoAlternatively the fine article.
- tomcam 3y agoHey! I like that much better. Thanks!
- sturza 3y agoenshitification
- nachox999 3y agowastimbolo
- mtmail 3y agomoat
- replwoacause 3y ago“Your pricing is too high” and I learned them in that order too
- piotrke 3y ago'churn' and 'churn rate'
- nicbou 3y ago“Order of magnitude”
- austin-cheney 3y agoCounter-intuitive
- silb 3y agobifurcate