Non-Tech Users' Awareness

The cluster focuses on how non-technical or less tech-savvy users often fail to understand or consider technical concepts that seem obvious to tech-savvy individuals like HN readers.

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Sample Comments

gvhst Oct 29, 2020 View on HN

Not for HN, but the less technology literate individuals certainly doesn't think about this.

hn_throwaway_99 Mar 16, 2021 View on HN

For many non-technical users, unfortunately, yes.

ikiris Dec 9, 2020 View on HN

It's kind of amazing how most even tech people don't seem to understand this.

xvector Mar 13, 2019 View on HN

Completely agree. The blindness of users here towards the use case of non-techies is surprising.

rahuldottech Jan 25, 2020 View on HN

You expect that from the vast majority of the population which is not tech-savvy?

solarkraft Mar 24, 2018 View on HN

Which most non-technical people probably don't even think about.

sethammons Mar 13, 2019 View on HN

As an example of people not understanding the tech around them.

jjulius Aug 3, 2020 View on HN

You can't expect end users with little-to-no technical know-how to have the same common knowledge that you do.

NicoJuicy Apr 8, 2014 View on HN

They could do so, but non technical people don't even know what that is :)

bovermyer Feb 26, 2020 View on HN

You ARE aware that a world of users outside of tech exists, right?