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The cluster centers on discussions about Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), including their outdated technology, security vulnerabilities like skimmers and physical access issues, fees, and comparisons to payment terminals or other systems.

This cluster centers on debates about ICE's immigration enforcement actions, with heavy criticism of alleged illegal arrests of US citizens, violence, warrantless raids, and calls to disband the agency, countered by arguments supporting deportations of undocumented immigrants.

The cluster centers on users repeatedly asking the original poster to share their templates, expressing enthusiasm for the idea, requesting more templates for sectors like e-commerce, and providing feedback on newly added ones.

The cluster discusses scientific studies and debates on the effects of exercise—particularly aerobic, high-intensity, and strength training—on brain health, cognition, neurogenesis, BDNF, and overall well-being, including comparisons to stress and immune responses.

Cluster discusses FDIC insurance limits, protection of uninsured deposits during Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failure, and whether depositors are made fully whole via government intervention or asset sales.

Discussions center on skepticism toward claims about the number of large companies (e.g., 500 or 135) with significant revenue or scale, with users questioning sources, providing counterexamples like Fortune 500 firms, and debating the total pool of global companies.

Discussions center on Apple's tight integration of services like iCloud, iMessage, FaceTime, and features such as Handoff and Continuity, debating the extent of user lock-in to Apple hardware and the challenges of cross-platform alternatives.

Discussions focus on the deprecation of APIs, features, libraries, and methods in various software projects, distinguishing it from removal, debating timelines, notices, and implications for developers and users.

The cluster focuses on the pitfalls of comparing oneself to others, which leads to feelings of inadequacy and bitterness, with advice to instead measure progress against one's past self and pursue personal growth.

Discussions center on the apparent discomfort of chairs in a featured workspace setup, with complaints about lack of lumbar support, backless designs, and suggestions for ergonomic alternatives like kneeling chairs or recliners.

Comments debate the enforceability of lawsuits and legal judgments across US and EU jurisdictions, including differences in legal systems, conflict of laws, and challenges for companies operating internationally.

The cluster centers on discussions about the low costs and high efficiency of international sea shipping via containers compared to air, land, or domestic transport, explaining why overseas manufacturing and global trade remain economical.

This cluster discusses the diversity of interests and hobbies among programmers, challenging stereotypes that all are deeply passionate about coding or lack non-technical pursuits, with many emphasizing that programming is often just a job rather than a universal hobby.

The cluster focuses on debates about eSIMs versus physical SIM cards, including their convenience for travel, device switching, carrier support, and limitations like transferability and compatibility.

The cluster centers on criticisms of CNN as a biased, unreliable, or fake news source, frequently comparing it to Fox News and other outlets while advocating against posting its content.

This cluster focuses on the dangers and complications of pregnancy and childbirth, debating the necessity of medical interventions like C-sections and hospitals versus natural or midwife-assisted births, often highlighting maternal mortality rates and US healthcare issues.

Comments primarily suggest or discuss implementing OpenID for website logins, lament its decline, and compare it to alternatives like Persona, OAuth, or OIDC.

This cluster debates the security risks and practicality of installing software via 'curl | bash' or similar commands, comparing it to package managers, binaries, and other methods while questioning trust, uninstallation, and standard practices.

Commenters share personal experiences on distances to everyday amenities like grocery stores, shops, and restaurants in suburbs versus walkable urban or town neighborhoods, often contrasting car-dependent U.S. suburbs with more accessible areas.

Comments debate the value and limitations of code/test coverage metrics, arguing that 100% coverage does not guarantee correctness, thorough testing, or bug-free code, while highlighting it as a misleading proxy for quality.

The cluster discusses effective job interview questions and strategies from both interviewer and candidate perspectives, including examples of good prompts like project experiences, behavioral questions, and advice on avoiding vague or generic inquiries.

The cluster debates the conflict between Elastic's license changes to Elasticsearch to restrict cloud providers like AWS from offering competing managed services without sufficient contributions, and AWS's fork into OpenSearch, touching on open source ethics, forks, and similar cases like MongoDB.

Commenters repeatedly compare the discussed technology or platform to Palantir's data analysis, ML, and surveillance tools, questioning similarities, involvement, or why Palantir isn't mentioned.

The cluster focuses on Wordle gameplay strategies, programmatic solvers, dictionary choices, variants like ScrabWordle or WordSegments, and comparisons to Scrabble or other word games.

This cluster centers on discussions about Developer Experience (DX or DevEx), including what constitutes tools or products specifically for developers, their impact on productivity and workflows, and debates over hype versus genuine value.

Commenters speculate on methods for precise indoor location tracking, debating technologies like Bluetooth beacons, WiFi fingerprints, access point triangulation, and machine learning over GPS.

Comments recommend and discuss user-friendly self-hosting solutions like YunoHost, Sandstorm, Cloudron, and Freedombox for running personal clouds, web apps, and services without relying on big tech infrastructure.

Cluster discusses historical memory addressing schemes like segmentation, banking, and early MMUs in processors such as 8086, 6502, PDP-11, and IBM 360, highlighting limitations and workarounds in pre-flat memory eras.

The cluster focuses on developing, porting, and running games in web browsers using technologies like HTML5, WebAssembly, WebGL, Haxe, and Unity, with debates on performance limitations, feasibility compared to native apps, and alternatives to Flash.

Discussions compare map implementations like HashMap, TreeMap, and JavaScript's Map across languages such as Java, C++, and JS, focusing on key types, ordering, performance, and use cases versus plain objects.

This cluster debates the advantages and disadvantages of wired versus wireless headphones, with users praising wired for superior sound quality, reliability, no charging needs, and lower cost, while others value wireless for convenience and lack of tangling cords.

Discussions focus on the concept of multiple dispatch in programming languages, its differences from single dispatch and function overloading, and examples in languages like Julia, CLOS, Dylan, and C++ workarounds.

Comments repeatedly cite Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, and similar prominent tech CEOs and billionaires as examples or counterexamples in discussions about success, qualifications, or influence in tech.

The cluster discusses the reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral after its fire, debating faithful restoration to original designs versus modern innovations, with historical examples of rebuilt European cathedrals like those in Dresden and Munich.

The cluster centers on discussions about Firefox OS, a web-based mobile operating system, including its potential advantages, reasons for failure, comparisons to Android and others, and its legacy in KaiOS.

The cluster revolves around debates on the distinction between public and private spaces, focusing on privacy expectations in places like streets, TV interviews, and social media platforms such as Twitter.

Comments focus on copy protection schemes like Denuvo, software cracking techniques, and anti-piracy measures in games and applications, including pranks and countermeasures by crackers.

The cluster discusses clothing and outfits designed to defeat or confuse facial recognition and surveillance cameras, such as shirts with faces or disruptive patterns, along with debates on aesthetics, practicality, and public perceptions of wearing them.

Discussions center on the responsibilities and expectations of a CTO, particularly whether they must be technical, write code, manage teams, or set vision, often in the context of startups and small companies.

Users debate whether Windows (especially 11) forces a Microsoft account during setup or login, share workarounds like disconnecting internet or hidden options to create local accounts, and express preferences for avoiding MS accounts.

Users express worries that proposed features or platform designs, such as personalized feeds or federated networks, will create or worsen echo chambers and filter bubbles, leading to increased polarization. Discussions reference social media sites like Twitter, Reddit, and HN as existing examples.

Discussions center on swipe-based or gesture typing keyboards like Swype, Gboard, and SwiftKey, praising their speed and accuracy over traditional tapping, especially on Android versus iOS.

Discussions center on Podman as a daemonless alternative to Docker, covering its benefits, compatibility, user experiences, limitations, and comparisons in container management.

The cluster discusses video games, especially online multiplayer and server-dependent titles, becoming unplayable after publishers shut down servers, with debates on solutions like releasing server code, enabling self-hosting, LAN support, and criticizing DRM practices.

Comments debate the effective power output of solar farms compared to nuclear reactors, emphasizing capacity factors, nameplate vs. actual generation, and scale requirements.

Discussions center on how US employers pay restaurant servers and tipped workers a sub-minimum base wage (e.g., $2.13/hour), expecting tips to reach full minimum wage, with debates on legal obligations, enforcement, and cultural expectations.

Comments centered on accusing, questioning, defending, or discussing hypocrisy in arguments, positions, or statements within the thread.

The cluster discusses cultural differences in mask-wearing practices, highlighting how routine mask use in Asian countries for colds, flu, pollution, and allergies contributed to better COVID-19 control compared to lower adoption and resistance in Western countries like the US.

Comments debate the universality of human rights versus country-specific or citizen rights, often criticizing the US for prioritizing constitutional rights over international standards like the UN Declaration, amid accusations of violations and whataboutism.

Discussions center on why companies, including startups and non-US entities, incorporate in Delaware for tax benefits, mature case law, and investor preferences despite operating elsewhere, with debates on enforcement, foreign qualification, and offshore alternatives.

Commenters question sources, debate interpretations, and argue about whether reported success or failure percentages for technologies, services, and ventures are high, low, acceptable, or reliable.

Discussions center on QUIC as a TCP replacement, its advantages like reduced latency and built-in encryption, integration with HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, and challenges in adoption and performance.

Discussions center on vulnerabilities, exploits, and hacks in Ethereum smart contracts, including references to the DAO hack, Parity wallet incident, and debates over hard forks to reverse thefts versus blockchain immutability.

Comments discuss strategies for surviving civilization collapse, including self-sufficiency through farming, hunting, off-grid living, and challenges like urban dependency, desperate populations, and the fragility of modern supply chains.

This cluster centers on debates about cold calling and sales outreach in startups, particularly B2B software, covering its necessity for acquiring first customers, customer annoyances, and tactical advice.

The cluster debates the merits of reusable glass bottles versus disposable plastic ones for beverages like water, focusing on environmental impact, recyclability, transportation costs, weight, fragility, and proposals for deposit-return systems or bans on plastic.

The cluster discusses the economic impacts of wage increases, debating whether they lead to higher prices and inflation, or can be absorbed by businesses through reduced profits, improved productivity, or reduced turnover without significantly affecting consumers.

Users compare the taste, texture, and quality of plant-based Impossible and Beyond burgers to real beef burgers, generally preferring Impossible over Beyond.

The cluster debates the necessity, advantages, and drawbacks of using LIDAR sensors compared to camera-only vision systems in self-driving cars, often criticizing Tesla's approach and highlighting issues like interference and cost.

The cluster discusses how platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and others are intentionally designed to be addictive through mechanisms like dopamine hits, infinite scrolling, and notifications, akin to gambling or drugs, leading to excessive use and negative psychological effects.

The cluster centers on humorous discussions and anecdotes about technology usability and accessibility for grandparents, especially grandmothers, often invoking the 'grandmother rule' or personal stories of elderly tech struggles.

The cluster centers on concerns about vendors sending unpaid bills or disputed charges to collections agencies, resulting in credit score damage, and shares experiences and advice on dealing with debt collectors. Discussions highlight risks in scenarios like stopping subscription payments or service disputes.

Comments debate the time taken for bank transfers in different countries, highlighting multi-day delays in the US compared to near-instant processing in Europe (SEPA), UK (Faster Payments), and elsewhere.

The cluster focuses on debates about context-free versus context-sensitive grammars for parsing programming languages, handling ambiguities, lexer-parser interactions, and tools like BNF, ABNF, and parser generators.

Users frequently report a website or page failing to load or update properly, which is resolved by refreshing, hard refreshing, or reloading due to browser caching problems.

Users discuss how job opportunities or similar resources exist but are difficult to discover, requiring specific knowledge, terminology, or effort rather than casual browsing or searching.

Cluster centers on debates about whether Hacker News flags or censors stories critical of Israel, especially those related to the Gaza conflict, alongside discussions of media bias and propaganda in Israel-Palestine coverage.

The cluster discusses the causes, scale, and implications of food waste across production, retail, restaurants, and households, including logistical challenges, corporate policies against donation, and arguments for or against tolerating some waste to prevent shortages.

This cluster focuses on spam calls and robocalls, with commenters blaming telecom companies for enabling them through routing and spoofing while profiting, and advocating for financial liability, fines, and stricter regulations to force solutions.

The cluster focuses on the difficulties, bureaucracy, and perceived brokenness of the US immigration system, with users sharing personal experiences, frustrations, and suggestions for improvement.

Commenters compare a presented concurrency or distributed system to the actor model, referencing implementations like Erlang, Akka, Elixir, Orleans, and Go channels. Discussions focus on similarities, differences, advantages, and limitations of actor-based paradigms.

Comments primarily identify or discuss content marketing strategies, emphasizing the creation, distribution, and monetization of high-quality content for business growth, SEO, and audience building in startups.

Discussions revolve around worries about sharing startup or business ideas publicly due to theft risks, with counterarguments emphasizing that ideas are commonplace, multiple people conceive them independently, and execution matters more than the idea itself.

The cluster debates whether upzoning and allowing higher density housing would decrease or increase existing property values for homeowners, contrasting land value appreciation from development with concerns over lifestyle changes, taxes, and NIMBY opposition.

Comments debate whether high-altitude balloons, such as the recent Chinese incident, are innocuous weather balloons or surveillance devices, often comparing them to satellites and suggesting balloons as cheaper alternatives for loitering or launches.

This cluster centers on debates about Rust's panic mechanism, including its intended use for unrecoverable errors, recoverability via panic=unwind or panic=abort, comparisons to exceptions, and best practices like unwrap() versus explicit error handling.

The cluster discusses the pros and cons of using the Moon as a platform for building spacecraft, producing fuel, and launching missions, highlighting advantages like low gravity and resources versus drawbacks like delta-V costs and lack of materials compared to Earth orbit or asteroids.

Discussions focus on smartphone integration with cars via CarPlay, Android Auto, and Bluetooth, including connectivity issues, auto-play problems, UX complaints, and debates over built-in car features versus phone dependency.

Discussions center on whether governments should provide financial incentives to encourage higher birth rates, viewing children as a public good with costs borne by parents amid declining fertility in industrialized nations.

Users frequently recommend classic books on personal finance, investing, and markets such as 'A Random Walk Down Wall Street' by Burton Malkiel and 'The Intelligent Investor' by Benjamin Graham.

The cluster focuses on website owners sharing Google AdSense earnings, comparing revenue to traffic volumes and CPM rates, and discussing alternatives like direct ad sales, private networks, or affiliates for better monetization.

Discussions focus on personal experiences with pain, anesthesia use or absence during medical and dental procedures like colonoscopies, wisdom teeth removal, ECT jolts, and surgeries, debating necessity, options, and sensations.

Discussions focus on US government regulatory control over SpaceX's satellite launches and operations due to its American status, citing FAA, FCC, ITAR, and the Outer Space Treaty.

This cluster centers on debates about whether atheism qualifies as a religion or faith-based belief system, often contrasting it with agnosticism and clarifying atheism as a lack of belief in gods.

The cluster focuses on distinguishing real human faces from AI-generated ones, including challenges in recognition, visualization abilities like aphantasia, facial symmetry, and the importance of faces in interactions and technology.

Discussions revolve around the decision to publish or withhold technical work, research, or findings, questioning why something is published if not intended for use, if it's ready, or if secrecy is preferable.

This cluster consists of comments criticizing Google's user interface and user experience design, often describing it as ugly, inconsistent, and prioritizing engineering over aesthetics across various products.

The cluster centers on discussions of signal-to-noise ratios, debating issues like noise overwhelming signals, improving detection amidst noise, and applications in data processing and transmission.

Users share personal stories of religious upbringing, deconversion from Christianity or Catholicism, reflections on atheism/agnosticism, and debates on the role of faith in life.

Discussions debate whether there have been fundamentally new concepts or significant progress in computer science since the 1960s or 1970s, contrasting rapid early advancements with perceived recent stagnation and referencing figures like Alan Kay.

Discussions focus on the physics of objects falling from heights, emphasizing terminal velocity, atmospheric drag, impact forces, and potential dangers or safety upon hitting the ground.

Discussions center on Apple's decision to replace Google Maps with its own Maps app in iOS, citing reasons like limited features in Google's iOS version, data privacy concerns, business leverage, and ongoing quality comparisons.

The cluster focuses on discussions speculating whether various incidents are ransomware attacks, evaluating ransomware as a business model, and sharing mitigation strategies along with links to related threads.

The cluster discusses biases in machine learning algorithms, particularly racial discrimination arising from biased training data, proxies for race in features like zip codes, and debates on fairness in applications like criminal justice, hiring, and facial recognition.

Comments debate whether and how Google profits from Android, focusing on indirect revenue from advertising, search, and services rather than direct device or app store sales, often contrasting with Apple's model.

Comments debate the relevance, definition, and necessity of POSIX compliance in modern systems, distinguishing POSIX as a portability standard/specification from specific implementations like Linux.

Discussions center on the history of peace negotiations, ceasefire proposals, and two-state solutions between Israel and Palestinians/Hamas, debating which side has rejected offers and the path to resolution amid the Gaza conflict.

Users enthusiastically discuss switching to and praising Kagi as a superior paid alternative to Google and DuckDuckGo, citing better result quality, fewer ads and SEO spam, and features like site blocking.

Discussions compare Microsoft Azure to AWS (and sometimes GCP) in terms of user experience, support quality, feature parity, reliability, and overall preference.

This cluster revolves around users sharing direct links and references to various posts from Raymond Chen's 'The Old New Thing' blog on Microsoft's devblogs, focusing on Windows programming trivia, history, and quirks.