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TLS certificates
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2015–2026), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with TLS certificates, 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
- Tools ignore system certificates, so internal certs must be configured separately per tool2026-07-09
- Browser client certificate UI is bad and support is inconsistent across browsers2022-03-12
- Users learn to click through security warnings without understanding them2017-02-28
- TLS client authentication is a usability nightmare for users2015-01-30