Dyson hand dryers

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2018–2025), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with Dyson hand dryers, 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

Slow on/off button instead of a trigger makes the vacuum awkward to switch on and off2025-07-07
Hard to trigger reliably, blows water everywhere, cumbersome to use2019-06-26
Dryers are slow to use, and you can't wipe anything else dry2018-01-27
Design makes them awkward or impossible for many people to use2018-01-27