Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Computer keyboards
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2009–2024), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Computer keyboards, 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 5 complaints
- Typing fast makes Shift-capitalised first letters come out lowercase or wrong-cased2024-09-17
- Many keyboards can't register some 3-note chords when played on the typing keyboard2014-06-10
- Many computers don't let you choose the US keyboard layout2014-01-24
- Numeric keypad forces the right hand to travel far to reach the mouse2013-10-13
- Curly braces are hard to reach without moving hands off the home row2009-12-31