Glossary of Book Acronyms Used on Hacker News
Online forum users like to use acronyms for lots of things, such as the common IMO (In My Opinion). Users on Hacker News also like to use abbreviations people (for example Richard Stallman is RMS), and books. I have queried my data on the book recommendations from hacker news for the acronyms used to refer to books. See the previous post for how I queried chatgpt to identify book titles. I did find that ChatGPT got a few wrong, for example at times it thought CLR referred to the book by K&R, “The C Programming Language”, and half the time it thought that CTM referred to “Concrete Mathematics” by Graham, Knuth and Patashnik.
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