[jiggunjer]

HN seems guilty of frequently using obscure acronyms. Is this an SV culture thing? Is it that hard to type things out or use a text-expanding app?

[thiagocsf]

What’s SV? (seriously)

[jml7c5]

Silicon Valley.

[dredmorbius]

People deeply immersed in some technical niche or subculture tend to use acronymms and other jargon unconsciously. That said, unexplained acronyms (I also wondered and found no likely definition in a DDG search) are an exceeding poor communication practice.

[1_player]

As far as I know it's an American cultural thing to use an acronym whenever possible.

[jjgreen]

Particularly military-sounding ones for some reason, MILACS perhaps.