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Hex editors
Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2017–2026), in 7 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Hex editors, 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 10 complaints
- Massive lag and jitter when scrolling down the page2026-10-28
- Endless content makes scrolling and reading unpleasant2026-10-28
- Boxes overlap and are cut off on Safari, blocking clicks and hiding text; scrolling is hijacked2026-10-27
- Color coding is hard to read for red-green colorblind users and causes eye strain2026-04-23
- Window expansion reflows lines to odd byte counts, breaking alignment2024-06-29
- Hex editors have cumbersome navigation controls and cut-off or uneditable status information2024-05-18
- Some interface elements are cut off on macOS Big Sur2021-03-27
- Hex editors are awful at visualizing and aligning binary files, forcing manual workarounds2019-08-18
- Hard to visualize and align binary data when repairing files2019-08-17
- Scrolling past file end shows unrelated disk data, causing confusion2017-02-21