If $f(1),\ldots,f(n)$ are distinct integers, then the least positive integer $m$ such that $f(1),\ldots,f(n)$ are pairwise incongruent modulo $m$ is usually denoted by $D_f(n)$. There are some research papers studying $D_f$ (the discriminator of $f$) for various number-theoretic functions $f$, see the introduction of my 2013 JNT paper On functions taking only prime values. For example, I proved that if $f(k)=2k(k-1)$ for $k=1,2,\ldots,n$, then $D_f(n)$ is the least prime greater than $2n-2$.
If $f(k)$ is the product of the first $k$ primes, in the 2013 paper of mine I conjectured that $D_f(n)$ with $n>1$ is a prime smaller than $n^2$, and this was verified by W.B. Hart for $n=2,\ldots,10^5$.
Quite recently, Q.-H. Yang and L. Zhao (see arXiv:2111.02746) used Kloosterman sums to prove a conjecture of mine which states that the least positive integer $m$ such that $k^3+k\ (k=1,\ldots,n)$ are pairwise incongruent modulo $m^2$ is the least power of three no less than $\sqrt n$.