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Stolen Buttons

243 pointsby Gecko4072last Monday at 9:23 AM65 commentsview on HN

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donohoetoday at 6:00 PM

I have noticed on occasion websites with a missing button. Now I know what happened. Finally, closure.

input_shtoday at 3:43 PM

Too bad they're just static, as the website doesn't copy the hover state or the on-click animations.

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binaryturtletoday at 3:33 PM

I may have missed one by looking at this huge dump, but NONE of the "buttons" I saw there actually looked/felt like a button. Something I can feel that I press it down and it gives proper visual feedback, like a little 3D effect.

I'm old-school. :)

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jonathrgtoday at 5:34 PM

That's rude. Give them back

JSR_FDEDtoday at 5:14 PM

Surprising how not one of these made my heart beat faster.

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ameliustoday at 3:47 PM

For inspiration, I prefer this one:

https://uiverse.io/buttons

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armchairhackertoday at 6:09 PM

You're visiting boring websites. I only saw one barely skeuomorphic button

a1otoday at 5:50 PM

Are we in flat design for way too long or is this a recent idea and the collection is also very recent?

nine_ktoday at 6:14 PM

So few of them look clickable.

thih9today at 4:38 PM

I wish there was a way to exclude the plain ones (single color rectangle with rounded corners and text).

joncoopertoday at 6:01 PM

You made my day. What a joyful, weird, fun projec!

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sshasantoday at 5:32 PM

Oh wow! Curious if you have the collection indexed by the year/month you picked it. Would love to see how button designs and types have changed over the years.

khazhouxtoday at 6:04 PM

Can anyone comment on the legality of this? By the number I see, this would no longer be classified as simple possession, but likely as intent to distribute.

bnjtoday at 5:37 PM

Great, how are we supposed to use those websites now? No wonder web is breaking down

t-sauertoday at 5:40 PM

610 buttons are anchor elements, and only 285 are actually real buttons.

Waterluviantoday at 3:31 PM

Is this as easy as calling getComputedStyle on a target element or is there more to it? I love the idea and I want to experiment with automating similar.

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fingertoday at 3:47 PM

It would be interesting if it was possible to sort them by similarity, width, height, shape, color, etc.

Retr0idtoday at 3:26 PM

Interesting choice to hotlink all the images! The side-effect is that some are dead now.

wuhhhtoday at 3:06 PM

I can’t look, so many arrows poorly aligned with text - how can these developers live with themselves!

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hmokiguesstoday at 3:24 PM

You should deduplicate and offer a cluster view with similarity distance

iefbr14today at 4:40 PM

It reminds me a bit of the toolbar mania in the nineties :)

aghilmorttoday at 3:29 PM

this is really great like collecting bottle caps except is buttons

thomasfltoday at 3:19 PM

So many different looking buttons. Wish there were more standards.

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codewiththihatoday at 3:56 PM

So this is basically the Thanos of web devs

0x1ceb00datoday at 5:04 PM

Yoink

modzutoday at 5:31 PM

none of them work

firasdtoday at 3:48 PM

This is like the late 80s/early 90s cyberspace idea... Imagine you're walking through a 3D ramp and all these buttons are yelling at you from all over the atmosphere... Login here! Start here! Contact us...

ninjahawk1today at 5:20 PM

Very nice.

Now let’s see Paul Allen’s buttons