Yeah, c'mon. GP, it took 5 seconds to confirm the definition of the word. If you're going to be cynical at least be correct.

I don't know where Google got that definition, but I don't see it in a dictionary so far...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/career

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/career

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/career

It's completely unsurprising to me that HN likes to get information from a search engine that doesn't know the difference between 'careen' and 'career'.

This may indeed explain how the author came about their incorrect definition, though.