Boeing 787

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2017–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Boeing 787, 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

Passengers can't see outside because the captain can dim windows against their choice, and they are slow to change2026-01-05
Easy to flip wrong switch under high workload, with no confirmation or delay2025-07-11
Commenter had to search the page to find the 2023 date2023-08-12
Independent sidesticks are less intuitive than linked yokes for pilots2017-10-01