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

neilyio | 16 points

"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

LinuxBender | 13 days ago

Surprised no one has mentioned "thither" as often as dang uses it.

Haven't seen "yon" yet.

krapp | 13 days ago

“Your pricing is too high” and I learned them in that order too

replwoacause | 12 days ago

moat

mtmail | 12 days ago

confabulate - what LLMs do

fragmede | 13 days ago

grok

atleastoptimal | 14 days ago

Counter-intuitive

austin-cheney | 11 days ago

to viscerally delve into psephology .. !an AI

defrost | 14 days ago

That "nonce" has another meaning relating to cryptography.

gadders | 13 days 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

fuzztester | 14 days ago

bifurcate

silb | 9 days ago

TFA (the fucking article)

tomcam | 13 days ago

wastimbolo

nachox999 | 12 days ago

'churn' and 'churn rate'

piotrke | 12 days ago

"heteroscedasticity"

perilunar | 14 days ago

“Order of magnitude”

nicbou | 12 days ago

enshitification

sturza | 12 days ago

[flagged]

nomoreban | 14 days ago