Ask HN: What is the best acronym you have ever seen?

2 pointsby banku_brougham11 ปีที่แล้ว4 comments

Obviously it must be compelling on many dimensions, points for math or computer science, or whatever.

I'll start it off with CRISPR, Clustered Regularly-Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats.

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Ezhik11 ปีที่แล้ว

Slightly unrelated, but OSS acronyms annoy me. Everything is an acronym, yet none of these acronyms ever mean anything.

11thEarlOfMar11 ปีที่แล้ว

TLA

banku_brougham11 ปีที่แล้ว

aha, Three Letter Acronym. Clever in a Gödel Incompleteness Theorem kind of way.

innocentpixel11 ปีที่แล้ว

BOHICA