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Parents and users criticize YouTube and YouTube Kids for inappropriate content, poor recommendations, addiction risks, and inadequate parental controls, often suggesting blocking access or manual curation.

The cluster revolves around tools, websites, services, and tips for preparing for software engineering technical interviews, including LeetCode problems, mock interviews, system design, and criticisms of the interview process amid layoffs.

Discussions center on Apple's limited support for serious gaming on Mac compared to the robust iOS gaming market, with criticism of platform policies like Metal exclusivity and lack of developer incentives.

The cluster discusses concerns over Plaid requiring users to share bank login credentials for third-party apps to access account data via scraping, contrasted with secure API-based open banking standards like PSD2 in Europe.

The cluster focuses on Uber's surge pricing and dynamic pricing strategies, debating their mechanics, benefits for matching supply and demand, potential for price gouging, and comparisons to traditional taxi pricing.

Comments discuss Apple's M1 and M2 processors, including features, teardowns, future versions like M2 and M5, specific capabilities, and hardware alternatives like the MNT Reform.

The cluster focuses on ASML's monopoly in manufacturing EUV lithography machines critical for sub-10nm semiconductor production, discussing its technology, customers like TSMC and Intel, US licensing, and geopolitical issues like exports to China.

Commenters repeatedly accuse or question whether genetic selection, embryo screening, or related biotechnologies constitute eugenics, often citing ethical concerns and historical precedents.

Commenters discuss Argentina's severe economic issues including hyperinflation, currency problems, poverty, and failed monetary policies, often referencing it as a real-world example in debates about economic theory or policy.

The cluster debates whether depictions of attractive women in ads, AI-generated images, and media campaigns constitute sexism, misogyny, or objectification, often highlighting perceived double standards between genders.

Comments discuss inconsistencies in using SI prefixes like mega- (Mg for megagram/tonne) versus common notations such as k kg or tonne, and parallels to financial abbreviations like K for thousand and M/MM for million.

Discussions revolve around Christian beliefs on sin, forgiveness, hell, judgment after death, redemption through Christ, and critiques from atheists and believers.

Comments debate whether failures, poor decisions, or problematic actions stem from incompetence rather than deliberate malice, often citing Hanlon's Razor.

Commenters criticize or defend parents, especially fathers, for selfish decisions like abandonment or neglect that burden their children, often referencing a specific story and sharing personal family anecdotes.

The cluster centers on debates about the suitability of JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for authentication and sessions, highlighting security pitfalls, footguns, and alternatives while referencing critical articles.

Comments focus on the value of ancient documents like cuneiform clay tablets, Herculaneum scrolls, and other historical writings for understanding past civilizations, their preservation challenges, lost knowledge, and modern AI efforts to decipher them.

Discussions primarily revolve around skepticism and conspiracy theories questioning the authenticity of the Apollo moon landings, with users citing supposed evidence of fakery and counterarguments like moon rocks and orbital photos, alongside references to recent private moon missions like Odysseus.

Discussions center on challenges Europeans face buying products online from US or non-EU sellers like Amazon, including shipping restrictions, customs fees, VAT differences, and country-specific availability.

The cluster focuses on debates about using MSVC versus alternatives like GCC, Clang, and MinGW for C/C++ development on Windows, including discussions on standards compliance, feature support, and toolchain preferences.

The cluster discusses how past criminal convictions, arrests, and records affect job applications, background checks, and hiring decisions, including debates on disclosure requirements, expungement, second chances, and comparisons to policies in the US versus other countries.

The cluster discusses best practices for managing SSH keys, including configurations in .ssh/config, use of hardware keys, agent forwarding risks, and criticisms of centralized SSH key services or tools.

The cluster debates how corporate executives and CEOs prioritize personal compensation, short-term stock price gains, and equity rewards over long-term company health, employee welfare, or broader shareholder interests, often highlighting misaligned incentives and fiduciary issues.

The cluster centers on the idea that Americans, especially the poor and middle class, view themselves as 'temporarily embarrassed millionaires,' fueling resistance to socialism and justification of inequality despite low social mobility.

Discussions center on Ventoy and alternatives for creating bootable USB drives that support multiple ISO images without repeated reflashing, compared to traditional methods like dd or Rufus.

Discussions center on whether users intentionally click online ads, with skepticism from many who claim they never do, countered by assertions that clicks occur intentionally, accidentally, or even maliciously to waste advertisers' money.

The cluster discusses the semantics, compile-time guarantees, optimizations, and differences between `const` and `constexpr` in C++, including debates on their practical uses, error handling, and comparisons to similar features in other languages.

Comments discuss the violence, power, and operations of Mexican drug cartels, their funding from US drug demand, corruption in Mexico, and debates on whether legalization would diminish their influence.

Commenters skeptically dismiss the featured item or phenomenon as merely ordinary rocks or stone, comparing it to mundane materials like dirt or sand and questioning its novelty or impressiveness.

Discussions revolve around invoking or debating Gödel's incompleteness theorems in contexts like formal systems, proofs, AI limitations, and mathematical foundations. Users frequently reference Wikipedia and Stanford Encyclopedia entries while questioning completeness or self-reference in various systems.

Comments discuss tax breaks and incentives given by cities and states to companies for establishing offices and employing local workers to stimulate the economy, and how remote work or WFH reduces local spending and jeopardizes these deals.

Comments revolve around inquiring about, debating, and comparing the percentage-based commissions, fees, and revenue cuts taken by platforms, services, and intermediaries from sales, profits, or transactions, such as Apple's 30% or Stripe's 2.9%. Discussions often question fairness, alternatives like flat fees, and industry standards.

Discussions center on alternatives to traditional SQL, such as PRQL, LINQ, Kusto, and other composable, pipelined query languages or DSLs that transpile to SQL for improved ergonomics and expressiveness.

Comments explain and debate Git's core model, including commits as immutable snapshots in a DAG rather than deltas, branches as pointers, and concepts like rebasing, reflog, and history immutability versus common misconceptions.

The cluster discusses the difficulties in securing substantial funding for ambitious, long-term R&D in hard technologies like fusion, AGI, and advanced computing, criticizing VCs for favoring short-term SaaS over moonshot projects requiring billions and years of investment.

The cluster discusses challenges in cleaning, transforming, and preparing messy data, the time-intensive nature of data wrangling for analysts and scientists, and tools or workflows to simplify ETL processes without heavy custom coding.

The cluster centers on discussions warning about or speculating on unintended consequences of policies, laws, actions, or technologies. Core comments repeatedly reference this concept, with samples expanding to specific examples like legislation and the Cobra Effect.

Cluster focuses on discussions comparing GNU Octave as a free open-source alternative to proprietary Matlab, including debates on performance, compatibility, syntax, licensing costs, and comparisons to Python, R, and Julia.

Commenters discuss challenges in finding and acquiring physical copies of rare or out-of-print books, sharing sources like libraries, used markets, libgen, and potential reprints.

Discussions center on Apple's Spatial Audio and related technologies like HRTF, binaural sound, and Dolby Atmos in headphones such as AirPods, including user experiences, effectiveness, technical implementation, and comparisons to stereo sound.

The cluster centers on the 'fake it till you make it' philosophy, exploring pretense and authenticity in human behavior and AI attempts to mimic genuine interactions, including risks of seeming inauthentic or deceptive.

Comments discuss the massive mortality and societal effects of historical pandemics like the Black Death, smallpox on Native Americans, and other diseases, often comparing them to modern pandemics like COVID-19 and highlighting factors like lack of immunity and medicine.

Discussions debate the necessity of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end WWII, questioning if Japan was already seeking surrender, the role of the Soviet invasion, and comparisons to conventional bombing and invasion casualties.

This cluster centers on debates about the value, implementation, and necessity of dependency injection (DI) in programming, including comparisons to constructors, manual DI, modules, and frameworks across various languages.

Discussions center on whether prisons should prioritize punishment or rehabilitation, contrasting high US recidivism rates with low rates in Scandinavian countries like Norway.

The cluster discusses the challenges and impossibility of achieving exactly-once message delivery in distributed systems, often citing the Two Generals' Problem, and explores alternatives like at-least-once delivery with idempotency or exactly-once processing.

Discussions center on the size, adequacy, and implications of seed funding rounds, including distinctions from Series A, investor expectations set by round labels, and strategies for early-stage startups.

The cluster centers on debates about event-based programming versus alternatives like direct function calls or channels, particularly in frontend development, web components, and UI handling, with discussions on benefits, drawbacks, and applicability.

The cluster focuses on the North American video game crash of 1983, discussing its causes like oversaturation of low-quality games by Atari and third-party developers, and lessons learned by Nintendo and others in reviving the industry.

Users debate built-in Windows features like Run dialog, Registry Editor, PowerToys, God Mode, and SysInternals tools as alternatives to third-party utilities such as NirSoft for system administration and quick access to settings.

Discussions focus on recommendations for books, online tutorials, and resources to learn JavaScript, especially for beginners, those brushing up skills, or experienced programmers seeking idiomatic code and pitfalls.

This cluster focuses on discussions about the R programming language, its strengths and weaknesses for data analysis, statistics, and visualization, including debates on syntax, packages like tidyverse and ggplot, learning resources, and comparisons to Python.

The cluster focuses on discussions about the dangers of handling hazardous chemicals, particularly hydrofluoric acid (HF), toxicity risks from spills, inhalation, or mixing, and the need for safety precautions in amateur, lab, or industrial settings.

This cluster centers on debates comparing C# and Java, focusing on language features, ecosystems, tooling, libraries, and platform advantages, with many arguing C# is superior or 'Java done right'.

Discussions criticize JSON's performance and size inefficiency compared to binary serialization formats like Protobuf, Flatbuffers, and MsgPack, recommending alternatives for high-performance use cases while noting JSON's readability advantages.

The cluster discusses the lack of critical thinking education in schools, its importance for society, challenges in teaching it effectively, and debates on whether it can be taught or is innate.

Comments center on the high expenses of purchasing, maintaining, fueling, piloting, and operating aircraft like planes and helicopters, debating hourly costs, affordability for individuals, and comparisons to alternatives.

This cluster discusses governments' use, development, funding, and mandating of open source software, including arguments for requiring FOSS in public projects, taxpayer benefits, and replacing proprietary alternatives.

Cluster centers on debates about zero-based versus one-based array indexing in programming languages, highlighting historical reasons, mathematical intuition, and preferences in scientific computing languages like MATLAB, Julia, R, and Fortran versus general-purpose languages.

Commenters fondly recall visits to stores like Radio Shack and Fry's Electronics for buying individual components, kits, and tinkering supplies, lamenting their decline into cell phone sellers or closure, with online alternatives like Amazon and DigiKey now dominant.

Cluster debates the relevance of the traditional 80-character line width limit for code and text, weighing readability benefits, historical reasons like terminals and print media, split-screen workflows against modern wide monitors favoring longer lines up to 100-120 characters.

Comments discuss the original purpose and design of the World Wide Web as a simple system for sharing hyperlinked documents and scientific papers at CERN, referencing pioneers like Tim Berners-Lee and Alan Kay, and contrasting it with the modern web.

The cluster discusses comparisons between English grammar and other languages like Slavic, German, and Polish, focusing on analytic vs. synthetic structures, inflection, cases, word order flexibility, and expressiveness.

Comments criticize mass-market American chocolates like Hershey's as inferior or not real chocolate, often comparing them to premium or international alternatives like Lindt or Cadbury, with recommendations for better options.

The cluster discusses falling marriage rates, especially among lower-income and less-educated groups, attributing it to economic factors like job instability, women's financial independence, shifts in gender roles, and hypergamy.

The cluster discusses the Oracle vs. Google lawsuit over the copyrightability of Java APIs in Android, focusing on whether Google's reimplementation of the APIs constitutes infringement or fair use.

Discussions center on strategies for pricing software development projects, debating fixed-price contracts versus hourly billing, scope creep management, and client negotiation tactics.

The cluster revolves around discussions of production difficulties, scaling manufacturing, supply chain issues, and doubts about timely mass production for new hardware products like phones or devices.

This cluster discusses whether certain business practices, such as misleading promotions or representations, constitute false advertising, fraud, or violations of consumer protection laws, often referencing FTC, lawsuits, and legal precedents.

The cluster debates the efficacy, safety, and use of Ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment, including discussions on scientific studies, FDA approval, misinformation, and media portrayal.

Comments primarily express curiosity about what happened to missing or disappeared items, people, wreckage, or remains, questioning their whereabouts, recovery, or ultimate fate.

This cluster discusses the concept of reproducible builds, their importance for verifying software integrity and security, challenges in implementation, and related tools/projects like those from Debian and Nix.

Users debate their experiences with Arch Linux as a rolling release distro, highlighting its stability, update reliability, occasional breakages, and comparisons to Ubuntu, Manjaro, and Debian.

The cluster focuses on debates about blocking or disabling third-party cookies in browsers to prevent tracking and privacy issues, questioning their necessity and effectiveness compared to other measures.

Users discuss problems escaping special characters like backslashes, asterisks, and regex metacharacters in Hacker News comments, often due to markdown rendering for italics and code blocks, while solving regex puzzles or sharing patterns.

The cluster revolves around commenters comparing a featured product or device to Chromebooks, often suggesting Chromebooks as cheaper, faster, or more suitable alternatives.

Comments discuss the importance, limitations, and alternatives to stack traces for error debugging across languages like Go, Python, JS, and Rust, including tools for capturing and improving them.

This cluster centers on debates about the causes of recent inflation, primarily attributing it to COVID-19 supply chain disruptions, government stimulus packages, energy price spikes from the Ukraine war, and monetary policy like quantitative easing.

Comments debate the misconception that corporations and directors have a strict legal fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder profits or value, often citing case law like Dodge v. Ford and legal analyses debunking it.

Comments debate the performance of Electron-based apps like VSCode, which is praised as responsive and efficient despite Electron's reputation for slowness and high resource usage in apps like Slack.

The cluster focuses on debates about US military actions in Syria, including proxy wars with Russia and Iran, occupation allegations, airstrikes on the Assad regime, and oil extraction.

Users discuss personal experiences of having or lacking an internal monologue or inner voice, exploring verbal versus abstract, non-verbal thinking processes and their efficiency.

The cluster focuses on discussions about the viability, challenges, and potential implementations of micropayments for web content monetization, including high transaction fees, alternatives like cryptocurrencies, and comparisons to ad-based models.

The cluster discusses the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and related trade deals like TTIP and TiSA, focusing on criticisms of their secrecy, IP exportation, WTO compliance, and impacts on global trade rules.

Discussions center on libraries and tools for converting HTML/CSS to PDF, such as wkhtmltopdf, WeasyPrint, headless Chrome, and Puppeteer, with comparisons to alternatives and some mentions of PDF to HTML conversion.

The cluster revolves around discussions on the costs of running free tech services, infrastructure, and tools like package managers or HTTPS, questioning who covers expenses such as hosting, power, and salaries, and debating monetization options like user fees or subsidies.

Commenters debate the existence of a specific chemical compound from an article, frequently asking for its identity, formula, or synthesis details while sharing chemistry databases, papers, and AI-related jokes like LabGPT producing nerve gas.

The cluster discusses skill development, fun, and mastery in competitive video games like Starcraft and Counter-Strike, often comparing them to traditional games like Go and Chess, and debating optimal challenge levels against opponents.

The cluster debates why companies avoid investing in training junior employees, particularly developers, due to fears of them leaving for higher pay after gaining skills, with discussions on economic disincentives, retention strategies like contracts and raises, and alternatives like hiring experienced workers.

The cluster focuses on discussions about HTTP headers, including their use in requests and responses, browser and proxy behaviors, custom implementations, limitations, and security implications like referer policies and HSTS.

This cluster features numerous job advertisements from education technology (edtech) companies hiring for software engineering, full-stack, and other tech roles to build platforms for K-12 education, online learning, coding for kids, and democratizing access to education.

Comments discuss and recommend voice-powered AI assistants like Mycroft.ai, Wit.ai, and others, comparing them to Siri/Google Assistant and expressing desire for seamless natural language integration without apps or websites.

Commenters repeatedly express unfamiliarity with a referenced 'prominent' individual or list of names, asking for identifications, links, or examples of well-known figures while debating their fame and obscurity.

The cluster focuses on the use of AI tools like LLMs by lawyers for legal research, drafting motions, and analysis, highlighting risks such as hallucinations creating fake case law and the need for human verification before court use.

Discussions center on challenges and user stories with car rental services, including damage, tickets, pricing issues, poor treatment of rental cars, and comparisons to peer-to-peer platforms like Zipcar and GetAround.

Discussions center on scaling fines for traffic violations like speeding and parking proportional to the offender's income to ensure equal deterrence across wealth levels, frequently citing Finland's system and critiquing flat fines or revenue-driven policing.

The cluster focuses on using Ctrl-C as a substitute for the Esc key to exit insert mode in Vim, along with related terminal shortcuts like Ctrl-Q to unfreeze after Ctrl-S and alternatives for exiting commands or programs.

The cluster centers on debates about the ethics, purposes, and regulations of hunting, including distinctions between subsistence, sport, and pest control, as well as comparisons to animal farming and wildlife management.

Discussions focus on challenges of running Ethernet cables in older homes with thick walls or no conduits, and alternatives like powerline adapters, MoCA over coax, and reusing existing wiring.

The cluster focuses on the complexity, outdated interfaces, customization issues, integration difficulties, and high risks of implementing and using ERP systems like SAP, Odoo, and Dynamics NAV in businesses.

Cluster focuses on students using ChatGPT and LLMs to cheat on assignments and essays, the challenges teachers face in detecting it, and proposed solutions like in-class exams, flipped classrooms, or process transparency.