Plenty of comments here seem positive towards Dyson. Others are negative but explain their reasons.

These kinds of curmudgeonly sneers/swipes at the HN community are so lame. They're easy to make and will attract upvotes and agreement from people who want the stereotype to be true. But they're futile to try and refute because people will always put more weight on the evidence that supports a belief like this than that which opposes it. The ultimate effect is wasted energy, and making HN threads depressing, which is interesting when the commenter is purportedly concerned about excessive negativity in this community.

Comments like this are clearly in breach of the guidelines, for good reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Additionally the comparison of the hand dryers is pretty unfair imo. Those V-shape Dyson dryers are so much better than any others I've tried ever. All the other seem downright anemic (or rather asthmatic in this case) and take much longer than those advertised 20s.

I have found the parts to be very expensive though.

The only Dyson that we have is an old vacuum I pulled out of the trash, which they haven't sold in years. Was clogged with hair; we removed the hair. Works well enough. It's a vacuum. It vacuums stuff pretty ok.

9/10 would trash pick again. I don't think I would ever buy one new though.

I did pay more for a vacuum. I bought a Miehl 12 years ago and it's awesome.

Yeah, I was thinking the same. I have two Dyson vacuum cleaners, one purchased about 9 years ago, and the other two years ago. Both are excellent, and I still use the old one for my basement.

I don't hate Dyson because it's trendy, I hate Dyson because my $700 vacuum wont pick up cheerios; a common spill with toddlers.

> I suspect that 90% of the people on HN who complain about Dyson (and most other consumer products) have never owned one, and are just aping things they've read online just to have something at all to say.

Same suspicion for me. I've owned two Dyson vacuums, and the only reason I had to buy the second was because someone stole the first one when they broke into my apartment over a decade ago. My current vacuum is more than 8 years old and has been repaired a few times doing it myself, and is still fully functional and comparable or better than most new vacuums.

Dyson makes very good products that are also beautiful. Yes, they're plastic, yes they're expensive, no they're not necessarily on paper the /best/ at their thing, but they're good, they're repairable, and they pass the wife acceptance factor.

I have a bunch of Dyson things because the wife loves the design but I find them to be consistently disappointing. Incredibly expensive for mediocre results and usually bad battery life. It's a step above junk but you're really just paying for style.

i have never even seen dyson come up as a topic on HN before