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Show HN: I am sick and tired of all this crypto coin crap.

24 points by robinduckett 13y ago

So I made this: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/185221 Feel free to use/adapt/modify as you please.

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cfontes 13y ago
What would be that? I don't like to click in random stuff...
- equilibrium 13y ago
  Script Summary: Removes Bitcoin / Litecoin / Crapcoin posts from Hacker News
- robinduckett 13y ago
  It's a greasemonkey / tampermonkey script which removes the table rows that contain irrelevant bitcoin related stuff. This is just a link to the userscripts page, you can see the full source code, and you don't have to install it if you don't like :)
blackdogie 13y ago
link to the script source http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/185221 http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/185221
abus 13y ago
Awful code written in anger. I would be ashamed to claim copyright on it too.
- robinduckett 13y ago
  I'm not ashamed to claim copyright on it, but it's not particularly doing anything novel or patentable, so what's the point?
- sz4kerto 13y ago
  Fork it and write a blogpost "How I used asm.js and Redis for managing Bitcoins on Hacker News"
- mattmanser 13y ago
  Why is it awful code? If you're spending time making quick scripts pretty, you're doing scripts wrong. It's concise, clearly written, does its job well, I certainly don't think it's awful.
Sir_Cmpwn 13y ago
Did this really need jQuery?
- robinduckett 13y ago
  Not particularly, but the contains selector is what I wanted.
  - Sir_Cmpwn 13y ago
    https://gist.github.com/SirCmpwn/eca9afaa83522abd90a4 https://gist.github.com/SirCmpwn/eca9afaa83522abd90a4
yread 13y ago
there is a typo 'Cyrptocurrency'
- robinduckett 13y ago
  Fixed
TomGullen 13y ago
Funny how Bitcoin starts to really make people angry. I can't help but feel a lot of the critics are a little bitter about it all for some reason. It's hard to remain objective about things when it evokes such strong emotions as it seems to on both sides. It's been on HN a fair amount, but it's not been excessive at all. And by definition, it floats to the top because the majority are interested in it! Bitcoin in my opinion is the most interesting thing that's happened in tech for a long time, and it has the potential to become one of the most disruptive technologies of all time. It is creating ripples in politics, business and economics on a world wide scale. It has the potential for positive social change. Banks leave a bitter taste in most people’s mouths nowadays; Bitcoin can punch them hard in their guts if it can start to eat away at large industries like remittance. No one knows where it's going, general sentiment is that it's future is polarised to total success or total failure. That's intensely exciting! The fact some people say it bores/annoys them I find hard to understand in this community. For a long time I'd been talking to one of my friends about Bitcoin. He was very excited by it all like me and wanted to buy some. The price then hit $1k. I'd bought in earlier, but he had not. He now actively tells people that he considers it a bad investment. I do not beleive he actually thinks this, I think it's a coping mechanism for his perceived loss. In much the same way I feel like these sorts of posts have the same origins because I struggle to see any other cause. Bitcoin is a perfect subject matter for HN, I'm confused why it's causing people to actively take measures to try and hide it all.
- robinduckett 13y ago
  Personally, I want to hide it because as much as it's cool and techy, the subject matter increasingly is articles on how people have lost / found wallets containing thousands of dollars worth of bitcoins. The truth is, they have found nothing of value. I was really interested in bitcoins back when it was new and the technology was interesting, however, since every post about it has become entirely financial and there is hardly a post talking about the technology in general, it no longer fits in the subjects I wish to read about.
- RossM 13y ago
  > It's a perfect subject matter for HN, I'm confused why it's causing people to actively take measures to try and hide it all. I think it's just down to the shear volume of stories about it. It's fine to have bitcoin news on HN, but the frontpage shouldn't be dominated by it.
CrazedGeek 13y ago
You misspelled "cryptocoin" and "cryptocurrency". You're also missing XPM, PPC, XRP, NMC, NSA, and Erlang.
- robinduckett 13y ago
  Don't forget: Scala, Java, MVP, Go, "Patent Trolls" and "HN"!
- Houshalter 13y ago
  There was a post the other day about how certain topics are already heavily penalized already by HN's algorithm. I.e. each vote only counts as half a vote. Anything with "NSA" for example.
JeroenRansijn 13y ago
Wether or not I agree with this is of no importance. However I do think something like a filter (similar to Email.app search tags) would be a nice feature for HN.

24 points by robinduckett 13y ago

So I made this: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/185221 Feel free to use/adapt/modify as you please.

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cfontes 13y ago

What would be that? I don't like to click in random stuff...

equilibrium 13y ago
Script Summary: Removes Bitcoin / Litecoin / Crapcoin posts from Hacker News
robinduckett 13y ago
It's a greasemonkey / tampermonkey script which removes the table rows that contain irrelevant bitcoin related stuff. This is just a link to the userscripts page, you can see the full source code, and you don't have to install it if you don't like :)

blackdogie 13y ago

link to the script source http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/185221 http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/185221

abus 13y ago

Awful code written in anger. I would be ashamed to claim copyright on it too.

robinduckett 13y ago
I'm not ashamed to claim copyright on it, but it's not particularly doing anything novel or patentable, so what's the point?
sz4kerto 13y ago
Fork it and write a blogpost "How I used asm.js and Redis for managing Bitcoins on Hacker News"
mattmanser 13y ago
Why is it awful code? If you're spending time making quick scripts pretty, you're doing scripts wrong. It's concise, clearly written, does its job well, I certainly don't think it's awful.

Sir_Cmpwn 13y ago

Did this really need jQuery?

robinduckett 13y ago
Not particularly, but the contains selector is what I wanted.
- Sir_Cmpwn 13y ago
  https://gist.github.com/SirCmpwn/eca9afaa83522abd90a4 https://gist.github.com/SirCmpwn/eca9afaa83522abd90a4

yread 13y ago

there is a typo 'Cyrptocurrency'

robinduckett 13y ago
Fixed

TomGullen 13y ago

Funny how Bitcoin starts to really make people angry. I can't help but feel a lot of the critics are a little bitter about it all for some reason. It's hard to remain objective about things when it evokes such strong emotions as it seems to on both sides. It's been on HN a fair amount, but it's not been excessive at all. And by definition, it floats to the top because the majority are interested in it! Bitcoin in my opinion is the most interesting thing that's happened in tech for a long time, and it has the potential to become one of the most disruptive technologies of all time. It is creating ripples in politics, business and economics on a world wide scale. It has the potential for positive social change. Banks leave a bitter taste in most people’s mouths nowadays; Bitcoin can punch them hard in their guts if it can start to eat away at large industries like remittance. No one knows where it's going, general sentiment is that it's future is polarised to total success or total failure. That's intensely exciting! The fact some people say it bores/annoys them I find hard to understand in this community. For a long time I'd been talking to one of my friends about Bitcoin. He was very excited by it all like me and wanted to buy some. The price then hit $1k. I'd bought in earlier, but he had not. He now actively tells people that he considers it a bad investment. I do not beleive he actually thinks this, I think it's a coping mechanism for his perceived loss. In much the same way I feel like these sorts of posts have the same origins because I struggle to see any other cause. Bitcoin is a perfect subject matter for HN, I'm confused why it's causing people to actively take measures to try and hide it all.

robinduckett 13y ago
Personally, I want to hide it because as much as it's cool and techy, the subject matter increasingly is articles on how people have lost / found wallets containing thousands of dollars worth of bitcoins. The truth is, they have found nothing of value. I was really interested in bitcoins back when it was new and the technology was interesting, however, since every post about it has become entirely financial and there is hardly a post talking about the technology in general, it no longer fits in the subjects I wish to read about.
RossM 13y ago
> It's a perfect subject matter for HN, I'm confused why it's causing people to actively take measures to try and hide it all. I think it's just down to the shear volume of stories about it. It's fine to have bitcoin news on HN, but the frontpage shouldn't be dominated by it.

CrazedGeek 13y ago

You misspelled "cryptocoin" and "cryptocurrency". You're also missing XPM, PPC, XRP, NMC, NSA, and Erlang.

robinduckett 13y ago
Don't forget: Scala, Java, MVP, Go, "Patent Trolls" and "HN"!
Houshalter 13y ago
There was a post the other day about how certain topics are already heavily penalized already by HN's algorithm. I.e. each vote only counts as half a vote. Anything with "NSA" for example.

JeroenRansijn 13y ago

Wether or not I agree with this is of no importance. However I do think something like a filter (similar to Email.app search tags) would be a nice feature for HN.