Show HN: Where Were We
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Show HN: HackerFriction, HackerTube for what HN complains about
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HackerFriction turns recurring Hacker News complaints into a searchable, ranked catalogue of usability problems, organized by product and spanning the past year, five years, or the site’s history. It aims to make persistent user frustrations visible to design teams, much as HackerTube highlights recommended videos. Claude groups relevant comments into issues, and founder Adnan Khan of Justusability reviews selected entries, identifies the usability principle involved, and suggests a fix. Each issue links to the comments behind it; downloadable JSON and CSV provide the underlying data.
The current ranking is led by car touchscreens that require drivers to look away from the road, cookie banners that make refusing tracking harder than accepting, and Windows’ local-account setup and slow File Explorer. Other prominent complaints include ads in the Windows Start menu, iPhone autocorrect errors, Mac window-management difficulties, and Google Search results crowded by AI answers. Rankings count distinct people, not repeated mentions: issues must appear across multiple people, threads, and months, and no single thread can supply more than a third of an issue’s count. The findings therefore indicate which problems Hacker News users repeatedly report, not which are most severe or representative of everyone; the community skews technical and US-based, and the dataset covers only comments likely to contain complaints.
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