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Please avoid acronyms on HN or spell them out. We don't all live in your context.

duckduckgo just says PSA is Prostate specific antigen. What did you mean?



I would blame this one on DDG, actually. PSA is an incredibly common acronym for public service announcement. Wherever DDG sources acronyms for might also be assuming people just know it. Try wiktionary or Wikipedia disambiguation pages for acronyms when they don't show up in search, I can often find them there.


What's HN?


IIRC Public service announcement.


Public service announcement. It’s very widely used


Sorry, I meant Secure SHell. Oh wait, that wasn't the widely-known acronym you asked about.


Sorry to see this downvoted, I think it's a common courtesy to spell out acronyms on first use, no matter how widely understood one believes them to be.


I think that's because most people consider this requires unjustified. Do you think similarly about expanding acronyms like SSH, CLI, HTTP, HN, FYI, USD, US, EU, PKI? Why/why not?


public service announcement, chatgpt would have got it for you




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