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

2 points by banku_brougham 10y ago ↗ HN

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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TLA

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

Ezhik 10y ago ↗

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

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