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spell-checkers
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with spell-checkers, 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
- Spell checker flags proper nouns, making bilingual typing extremely annoying2026-06-24
- False corrections for Swiss German spelling and unhelpful suggestions for inflected word forms2019-10-29
- Real errors get buried under false red underlines for unusual words or other languages2018-03-11
- Having to right-click to fix a flagged typo discourages the commenter from correcting it2014-08-14