Perhaps proving https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/, that would be pretty disruptive to the way I use the hide button, as it's a good way to leave you

Perhaps proving https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/, that would be pretty disruptive to the way I use the hide button, as it's a good way to leave your cursor in the same spot and "dismiss" posts that I don't plan on reading one by one. Adding a confirmation, and therein forcing me to continuously move the mouse there and back, would completely break that. I agree with it shouldn't be so near to the link though (and with the broader topic that it seems HN prides itself somehow on having bad UX instead of just simplicity -- albeit perhaps because we couldn't all agree what to change and how!).