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Yes, there are risks in everything, even just handling data as I mentioned. As for whether the risks are worth the rewards with scripting, it's debatable, but calling a web without scripting "useless" is incorrect; at the moment you're using a purely data driven website. HN is certainly not useless by modern standards.

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There are exceptions, of course. Try imagining Twitter, Facebook or any of the other popular (not-such-geeky) sites without javascript, or any client-side scripting for that matter.

(FYI, HN has an onclick='return vote(this)' on votes, so it does use javascript too - although, very little, and it's optional)

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