Jesus christ, is it so hard to not pay attention to things that you don't care about? 90% of what shows up on HN isn't up my alley but I don't post some overly dramatic bullshit in the comments of every one.
If you'd pay for it, why not pay someone to make it, if you're too lazy to make it yourself? Ultimately, who cares?
I don't really mind bitcoin drama but this "submission" is terrible. No context, no nothing, no analysis.
It's not a submission aimed at the HN community, it's a submission aimed at the bitcoin community because it doesn't make any sense whatsoever to the rest of us who aren't very familiar with the protocol.
This submission is obviously not meant for me, it seems fair that I would ask for the possibility of not seeing it, don't you think?
Do you really expect the context and analysis to appear in the headline? Look over the last 10 days of HN front pages and observe how few headlines fit your requirements. Columns whose punchy titles explain little, or simple names of projects (with a version number afterwards, useless for someone who hasn't followed the project), or of course the endless tools and libraries that are totally inapplicable to the area of expertise one reader happens to inhabit. Oh, mobile-first CSS? Obviously not meant for me. Vim-related? Obviously not meant for me. Bomber for sale? Obviously not meant for me. B2B? Obviously not meant for me.
You want a subHN special for you? That's not what this website is about, never has been, but you've been an active member for a dog's age right? But now you want to hide a story because you don't like the framing? Tut!
Nothing fair or unfair about what you're asking for, when you're perfectly aware of the way this site works. You are your own filter. This is not a place for pony requests.
The headline? You mean the hash thing? Of course not. But even after opening the webpage I have no idea what that's about. It's an inside thing for the bitcoin community.
Everyday on HN I see posts about subject I know nothing about. Things about technologies I never used, people I've never met and places I've never been. That's why I come here, to discover new things.
This post is not like that however, it's the equivalent of me submitting a link to an obscure commit to some lesser known subsystem of the linux kernel without any context.
Of course you always expect a certain amount of shared knowledge among a comunity. For HN it would be a certain computer literacy and basic knowledge of computer languages I suppose. Also, startup stuff. This post goes well beyond that and assumes familiarity with bitcoin, the implementation of its protocol and all the context leading up to that.
And no, I don't want a subHN, I was no-so-subtly hinting that I don't this this submission is good and has its place on the frontpage. It does not gratify my intelectual curiosity, to paraphrase the guidelines.
I saw it, and I knew what it was, so I clicked it. Other things, that confuse me, sometimes I click them to find out what they are, sometimes I ignore them. Without being a bitch about it.
All I can see here is people moaning because this isn't what they have come to expect from HN. It isn't a startup? Not a new Node library? Omg, this isn't some hip news? It shouldn't be in hacker news!
Someone just transferred ~100 million dollars across the net without a bank being involved. Even without knowing anything about why or who, just the fact that this occurred is interesting. Money is one of the earliest information technologies and bitcoin, whether or not you think it will be successful in the long run, is something that anyone who professes an interest in technologies should be watching very closely.
Don't give me that bullshit. It's not hard at all. It's not even close to hard. It would be an understatement to call it easy. Anyone complaining about this is so steeped in entitlement that if they told me such a thing in real life I'm afraid I would become animal-like. Such complaints are worse than pointless and I hope OP or whatever refers to the guy I responded to originally, and to some extent you, get some fucking perspective. It's embarrassing.
But, what if you became "animal-like" IRL and the guy just completely kicked your ass in response? I mean, that would be a distinct possibility, right?
Just hypothesizing on where that scenario would leave things.
Man, I'm just tired of people crying about how hard their life online is. If someone were complaining to you in real life about how they had to not pay attention to a single line of text — so much so that they had to call it out at the time — I think I would have to just tell them how shitty I think they are. I've seen too many people doing it to pretend it's not a pervasive problem among the tech-literate. Someone needs to tell them their objections are so trivial that they ought not be aired at all. It's a strange paradox!
The title is a bit opaque but with the domain displayed next to it I don't think it's that hard to infer hash+blocksomething=bitcoin.
For what it's worth I don't like all the Bitcoin stories on the front page but sometimes they're interesting (the slow motion train crash that is MtGox) and other times, when they'd not interesting, they're not hard to ignore.
The problem isnt just the title - this whole submission is pointless.
I saw the long hash and assumed it had something to do with bitcoin. I clicked through onto the link, but I still have no idea what's going on. I'm guessing that someone sent and recieved lots of bitcoins in one transaction, but I don't know the significance of that.
Perhaps the OP could have linked to an article discussing or describing it? Or even have made the submission a text submission and commented on it himself?
This is the largest "bitcoin days destroyed" since ever. It's also most likely Mt. Gox's bitcoins that are moving as well. This transaction can be traced back to an arbitrary transaction Mark Karpeles made to prove he still had keys to his address some time ago.
Cool facts:
- where else does $180million move without any fees, in the blink of an eye?
- some transactions after this diverted some money into Satoshi Dice, so it's most likely not the Feds who control this, and they're potentially interested in laundering potential.
And if this is ordinary way in which I communicate? Am I typing in all caps? Am I misspelling things, or threatening people, or invoking fallacies? I feel strongly about this kind of thing. If I appear to be less than calm to you, you might do well to consider how very little you have to go on in this evaluation of my demeanor.
Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation.
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.
I'm going to have to recommend everyone ITT take a deep breath and let it go.
Yes, it is harder to find content that is pushed out by excessive bitcoin coverage. Yes, it is hard to ignore bitcoin content when it makes up so much of the front page and of /new.
Man quit upvoting my dumb angry response to his idiotic, entitled garbage and vote up the informative and consequential stuff below. If a year from now we look back and this nonsense is the top comment, what claim will HN have to being a community where meaningful discourse is valued?
If you'd pay for it, why not pay someone to make it, if you're too lazy to make it yourself? Ultimately, who cares?