What are some words that you learned on Hacker News?

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I'll start. "Orthogonal".

LinuxBender · Accepted Answer

"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

krapp · Answer

Surprised no one has mentioned "thither" as often as dang uses it.Haven't seen "yon" yet.

replwoacause · Answer

&ldquo;Your pricing is too high&rdquo; and I learned them in that order too

mtmail · Answer

moat

fragmede · Answer

confabulate - what LLMs do

atleastoptimal · Answer

grok

austin-cheney · Answer

Counter-intuitive

defrost · Answer

to viscerally delve into psephology .. !an AI

gadders · Answer

That "nonce" has another meaning relating to cryptography.

fuzztester · Answer

"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

silb · Answer

bifurcate

tomcam · Answer

TFA (the fucking article)

nachox999 · Answer

wastimbolo

piotrke · Answer

'churn' and 'churn rate'

perilunar · Answer

"heteroscedasticity"

nicbou · Answer

&ldquo;Order of magnitude&rdquo;

sturza · Answer

enshitification