Ask HN: What kind of eyewear do you use?

I gave up on contacts a long time ago. But some of my co-workers wear them. You need eye drops to keep your eyes from drying out (blame it on air-con and your eyes moving less due to looking at the monitor). Personally, I prefer glasses, but even then I sometimes need eye drops by mid-afternoon.

OP: this could be a vote, maybe?

I use glasses. Higher-n glass for them would be really nice, and light, but it's above my budget, and apparently too fragile for clumsy people. I don't like them, but given the alternative, there isn't really a choice :) I wear them almost all the time when I'm awake (anything between 14-20 hours a day), and my eyes usually don't get irritated from just wearing them. Sitting in front of badly configured monitors, though, is a different matter.

I'm scared of the initial starting pain with contacts, else I'd consider using them.

Glasses. Contacts are OK for walking around and not really painful at all, I was surprised how quickly I got used to them (and that was a long time ago). But if you're spending long periods focused on the same distance for reading or coding then they wear one's eyes out much faster.

I wear my glasses at work and my contacts when I'm going out or cycling/running/golfing/sporting.

I haven't found a pair of contacts I can wear for 8-12 hours in front of a monitor.

I gave up on contacts - didn't like the idea of jabbing my fingers in my eyes every day for the rest of my life. I wear glasses all day every day, no problem. Thinking about getting them lasered.

I wear glasses, having stopped wearing contacts for the same reasons you give, but have recently been considering an implantable contact lens (e.g. visian). They sound good but don't seem to have made the headway in the market that lasik has which gives me some pause, but this might have more to do with doctors having made early investments in lasik before icl were approved. Anyway, I'm not in any hurry as day to day glasses work fine for me.

I use contacts (same brand, Acuvue Oasys) + glasses.

I wear contacts much more than glasses, and have some trouble when I put on my glasses. In particular the loss of peripheral vision (I have extremely bad eyesight) when I put on glasses is tough to get used to.

Not single, don't need to be presentable for work either. Gave up contacts. :) Five-yr old titanium, rimless glasses are doing great.

I loved my daily disposable Acuvue contacts when I wore them. Absolutely couldn't feel them after about 2 weeks of wearing them. They would dry out more in winter, but great otherwise. Still miss them when doing physical activity.