Ask HN: What's your daily driver keyboard? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What's your daily driver keyboard?

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Post by CarVac » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 9:27 PM UTC

Mitosis Anaphase, a handwired sandwich design based on the Mitosis keyboard.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/8wip5j...

I type with the keyboard on my lap so a split design didn't work for me, hence creating this handwired contraption.

I use the Dvorak layout and have two alternate layers. In the number layer, the top row is punctuation, home row is numbers, and bottom row spilling into the thumb cluster is F keys). The other utility layer has mouse keys and media control.

Keyswitches: Box Navy

Caps: Polycarbonate DCS alphas R1-R3-R4, DSA R3 for the tall thumb caps, G20 for the low thumb caps.

Button layout: https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/50a4b3510bdfe5e8c93...

Re: Ask HN: What's your daily driver keyboard?

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Post by ajp11 » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 9:35 PM UTC

A Goldtouch KFK-E88YB which is a split keyboard with adjustable angle. Made around the year 2003.

I strongly prefer it over a flat keyboard, I have each side at about a 23 degree angle to the desk.

I'v worn the bumps off the F and J keys, which I need to get my fingers in position without looking down.

Re: Ask HN: What's your daily driver keyboard?

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Post by bramhaag » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 11:46 PM UTC

Kinesis Advantage with brown switches. Some of the switches are starting to double input, and sometimes a modifier key gets stuck. Can't complain though, it's about to turn 18 years old soon.

Re: Ask HN: What's your daily driver keyboard?

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Post by JohnFen » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 11:49 PM UTC

A Kensington M01181 I picked up used for $5 at an electronics recycler. It's been my daily driver for about 7(?) years now, although do also use a half-dozen other keyboards. All from the same recycler, except for a wireless mini keyboard I use on my electronics workbench.

Re: Ask HN: What's your daily driver keyboard?

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Post by whereistejas » Sun, Aug 23, 2026, 1:03 AM UTC

Cornix LP

Re: Ask HN: What's your daily driver keyboard?

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Post by utopiah » Sun, Aug 23, 2026, 1:46 PM UTC

Bastard Dilemma 36 keys, twilight switches, touchpad

my keyboard journey is on https://fabien.benetou.fr/Tools/Keyboards

Re: Ask HN: What's your daily driver keyboard?

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Post by dickiedyce » Sun, Aug 23, 2026, 2:10 PM UTC

Daily driver is a Svalboard. Before that, there was a Rolio, Corne-ish Zen, Moonlander, Ergodox EZ. All were great. I tried to make the MoErgo Glove 80 and a Characorder Master Forge work, but without sufficient success. For 'thinking not typing' Svalboard takes the biscuit. I use tap-dance, with 1 extra momentary layer for macros. Layout-wise, I went with Workman. Makes Helix interesting, but it's muscle-memory now. What is unplayable now... minecraft lol.

Re: Ask HN: What's your daily driver keyboard?

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Post by Moomoomoo309 » Mon, Aug 24, 2026, 3:27 PM UTC

At home, a tenkeyless GMMK with box white switches, and at work and on the go, I use a Redragon K649 Pro, which has some custom switches for their clear keyboards, but it's a smooth linear that feels and sounds nice. The redragon has 2.4 and Bluetooth and wired, I use it on Bluetooth most of the time, and switch to 2.4 if it's a device I'm only hooking up to once.