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?
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?
You're clearly thinking of another internet service. Everyone sees the same Hacker News front page. You want something customizable.
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.
No, I expect it in the page. (And presumably, so did they.) A link to a large bitcoin transaction with no explanation tells me nothing.
Actually, I think this should.
Why? What intellectual curiosity is being stimulated? What am I learning?
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.
Just hypothesizing on where that scenario would leave things.
This submission is lousy. It has a lousy title and there is zero interesting content. It is pointless. What is anybody learning from this submission?
You should follow your own recommendation here and step away from the keyboard for a while... this entire thread just isn't worth getting angry about.
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.
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?
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.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In particular:
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.
Downvote us, you fools!!