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If you're a button, you have one job

6.5 relevance
Score Breakdown
technical depth
7
novelty
6
actionability
5
community
9
strategic
4
personal
9

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If you're a button, you have one job
Summary

The discussion is nascent; based on the title, it critiques web buttons that are overloaded with multiple or ambiguous actions, arguing for simplicity and single responsibility. In typical Hacker News fashion, commenters would likely advocate for semantic HTML, progressive enhancement, and clear user-facing interfaces, reinforcing the idea that a button should do exactly one job.

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Marcin Wichary

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