HHKB keyboard

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2017–2026), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with HHKB keyboard, 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

Arrow key placement causes sore pinky when typing on the layout2026-07-02
Its compact layout makes one-handed use impossible for the commenter2023-11-02
Must press a dedicated button to wake it, and it sometimes fails to connect on the first try2022-05-24
Function keys on a secondary layer make IDE shortcuts like Ctrl+F9 cumbersome2019-11-20
Arrow, page and home keys need awkward chords that can't always be remapped2017-05-18