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

"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

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

Haven't seen "yon" yet.

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

moat

confabulate - what LLMs do

grok

Counter-intuitive

to viscerally delve into psephology .. !an AI

That "nonce" has another meaning relating to cryptography.

"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

bifurcate

TFA (the fucking article)

wastimbolo

'churn' and 'churn rate'

"heteroscedasticity"

“Order of magnitude”

enshitification