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EMV chip card readers
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2015–2023), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with EMV chip card readers, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Transit card readers are painfully slow to process a tap2023-09-04
- Inserting chip card during scanning gives error; must remove and reinsert, with frequent read failures2016-07-31
- Same card is asked for PIN or signature depending on region and method, unpredictably2016-01-20
- Can't tell which card application to pick, so guesses and retries a failed withdrawal2015-10-01