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halJordan • today at 1:15 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

I disagree. I think you're saying that because this is your niche and finding the term isn't difficult for you.

However, consider the Tolkien community. I enjoy lord of the rings and want to know more. But there's an absurd acronym for another book (home) that no one ever expands in that community. And it's not in the wiki's and it's not in Google (bc what do you get if you google "tolkien home"?) it was intentionally frustrating for me to figure out what that acronym was. The people in the tolkien community also adopted your pov and just wouldn't help, expecting new people to bootstrap themselves. It was not a fun experience. These styling conventions aren't for the 99% of the time they're for the 1% of the time.


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mgiampapa • today at 1:19 AM

It's not an intuitive leap to google "tolkien home acronym" of which both the AI summary and the first result give the answer.

Melatonic • today at 1:43 AM

It's also quite similar to CPU

But yeah in general it's nice to at least explain the acronym once