Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Things He Learned

Re:Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Thing... by jiggunjer on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @12:40AM (#23686624)

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?

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Re:Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Thing... by thiagocsf on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @07:48AM (#23689109)

What’s SV? (seriously)

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Re:Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Thing... by jml7c5 on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @07:54AM (#23689144)

Silicon Valley.

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Re:Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Thing... by dredmorbius on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @07:16AM (#23688917)

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.

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Re:Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Thing... by 1_player on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @04:59AM (#23688124)

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

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Re:Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Thing... by jjgreen on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @08:28AM (#23689354)

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

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