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

by banku_brougham on 1/20/2016, 2:17 AM with 4 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.

  • by Ezhik on 1/20/2016, 3:14 AM

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

  • by 11thEarlOfMar on 1/20/2016, 2:33 AM

    TLA

  • by innocentpixel on 1/20/2016, 2:31 PM

    BOHICA