[dpark]

This is a distinction without a difference. Removing heat from the interior air is the same thing as cooling the interior air.

If you mean that the air conditioner doesn't produce a magical substance called "cool", that's true, but no one claimed that it does. The mechanism transfers heat with the effect of cooling the interior.

[tunap]

Just thought I would try to illuminate a prevalent technical misconception.

[dpark]

I get that, but he didn't make an incorrect or misleading claim. And honestly, most people on HN probably understand that air conditioners move heat.