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And the Oscar for the most cryptic hyperlink on Hacker News goes to... Oh. Another fascinating article about Bitcoin, the internet phenomenon that is to crypto

by etfb 13y ago

And the Oscar for the most cryptic hyperlink on Hacker News goes to... Oh. Another fascinating article about Bitcoin, the internet phenomenon that is to cryptography what Ayn Rand is to philosophy. I'd happily pay for an option to display Hacker News without any articles that reference Bitcoin. I figure I'd get through the feed in half the time...

devindotcom 13y ago
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?
- obeattie 13y ago
  I'm not in support of banning Bitcoin news, but with titles like this, yeah it kinda is hard to ignore them.
  - devindotcom 13y ago
    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.
    - devindotcom 13y ago
      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!
      - DanBC 13y ago
        You might want to try decaf. 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?
    - grey-area 13y ago
      I'm afraid I would become animal-like...get some fucking perspective. It's embarrassing. 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.
    - nestlequ1k 13y ago
      Relax psycho
      - imdsm 13y ago
        No, you relax. I'm not going to have you moderates controlling our feed. It's an arena. Anything goes.
    - unclebucknasty 13y ago
      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.
    - zhte415 13y ago
      children, children
  - taspeotis 13y ago
    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.
    - madeofpalk 13y ago
      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?
      - bennyg 13y ago
        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.
- rhizome 13y ago
  It's basically spam at this point.
  - devindotcom 13y ago
    it's not fucking spam either. get a grip. fuck! it's like words have no meaning now!
    - simias 13y ago
      You need to calm down
    - devindotcom 13y ago
      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.
      - tomelders 13y ago
        I think you're being asked to tone down the color commentary. It's not an unreasonable request.
      - tga_d 13y ago
        You might want to take a look at this page: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html 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.
- devindotcom 13y ago
  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? Downvote us, you fools!!
- na85 13y ago
  Oh I'm sorry, I was unaware that community members weren't allowed to voice their displeasure at low-quality submissions (yes, this is one).
- simias 13y ago
  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?
  - thaumasiotes 13y ago
    > 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.
    - imdsm 13y ago
      Allow me to help. http://www.reddit.com/ http://www.reddit.com/
  - devindotcom 13y ago
    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.
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- DanBC 13y ago
  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.
lotsofmangos 13y ago
And the Oscar for the most cryptic hyperlink on Hacker News goes to... That award should be highly coveted. It is Hacker News, after all.
yhlasx 13y ago
Pay me 1 BTC and I will make it for you. 1CgZ2qaZdY5UxZi5RBkq5426a7zxMmiZaa
- pan69 13y ago
  That's not even hexadecimal...
endeavour 13y ago
Would you be willing to pay in bitcoins, though?
gfodor 13y ago
This post is best read in the voice of the Comic Book Guy.
clarkm 13y ago
I'm not quite getting your analogy. Was it supposed to have any depth, or was it just a way of signaling your hatred for your ideological opponents?
Sir_Cmpwn 13y ago
I wrote a userscript that makes small enhancements to HN. Among them is a regex-based post filter. https://github.com/SirCmpwn/HNImproved https://github.com/SirCmpwn/HNImproved
- mattgibson 13y ago
  Nice. I wish the OP would behave like an actual hacker and at least search Github for a solution before claiming they'd pay for one.
ekianjo 13y ago
If you were an actual hacker you could make a filter function in less than 5 minutes. Just saying. And paying for that would just be plain ridiculous.
beagle90 13y ago
Yeah pay someone to add a filter. I'm thinking simply grab the html from each HN link, perform some search against a Bitcoin word/phrase dictionary, if it's a match then hide that link.
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ghotli 13y ago
Hijacking the top comment: The level of discourse in this thread is abysmal.
veganarchocap 13y ago
Woah! Let's leave Ayn Rand out of this!
robinduckett 13y ago
I made this already: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/185221 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/185221
alewis2005 13y ago
most cryptographic hyperlink on Hacker News...

by etfb 13y ago

devindotcom 13y ago

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?

obeattie 13y ago
I'm not in support of banning Bitcoin news, but with titles like this, yeah it kinda is hard to ignore them.
- devindotcom 13y ago
  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.
  - devindotcom 13y ago
    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!
    - DanBC 13y ago
      You might want to try decaf. 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?
  - grey-area 13y ago
    I'm afraid I would become animal-like...get some fucking perspective. It's embarrassing. 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.
  - nestlequ1k 13y ago
    Relax psycho
    - imdsm 13y ago
      No, you relax. I'm not going to have you moderates controlling our feed. It's an arena. Anything goes.
  - unclebucknasty 13y ago
    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.
  - zhte415 13y ago
    children, children
- taspeotis 13y ago
  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.
  - madeofpalk 13y ago
    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?
    - bennyg 13y ago
      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.
rhizome 13y ago
It's basically spam at this point.
- devindotcom 13y ago
  it's not fucking spam either. get a grip. fuck! it's like words have no meaning now!
  - simias 13y ago
    You need to calm down
  - devindotcom 13y ago
    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.
    - tomelders 13y ago
      I think you're being asked to tone down the color commentary. It's not an unreasonable request.
    - tga_d 13y ago
      You might want to take a look at this page: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html 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.
devindotcom 13y ago
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? Downvote us, you fools!!
na85 13y ago
Oh I'm sorry, I was unaware that community members weren't allowed to voice their displeasure at low-quality submissions (yes, this is one).
simias 13y ago
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?
- thaumasiotes 13y ago
  > 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.
  - imdsm 13y ago
    Allow me to help. http://www.reddit.com/ http://www.reddit.com/
- devindotcom 13y ago
  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.
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DanBC 13y ago
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.

lotsofmangos 13y ago

And the Oscar for the most cryptic hyperlink on Hacker News goes to... That award should be highly coveted. It is Hacker News, after all.

yhlasx 13y ago

Pay me 1 BTC and I will make it for you. 1CgZ2qaZdY5UxZi5RBkq5426a7zxMmiZaa

pan69 13y ago
That's not even hexadecimal...

endeavour 13y ago

Would you be willing to pay in bitcoins, though?

gfodor 13y ago

This post is best read in the voice of the Comic Book Guy.

clarkm 13y ago

I'm not quite getting your analogy. Was it supposed to have any depth, or was it just a way of signaling your hatred for your ideological opponents?

Sir_Cmpwn 13y ago

I wrote a userscript that makes small enhancements to HN. Among them is a regex-based post filter. https://github.com/SirCmpwn/HNImproved https://github.com/SirCmpwn/HNImproved

mattgibson 13y ago
Nice. I wish the OP would behave like an actual hacker and at least search Github for a solution before claiming they'd pay for one.

ekianjo 13y ago

If you were an actual hacker you could make a filter function in less than 5 minutes. Just saying. And paying for that would just be plain ridiculous.

beagle90 13y ago

Yeah pay someone to add a filter. I'm thinking simply grab the html from each HN link, perform some search against a Bitcoin word/phrase dictionary, if it's a match then hide that link.

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ghotli 13y ago

Hijacking the top comment: The level of discourse in this thread is abysmal.

veganarchocap 13y ago

Woah! Let's leave Ayn Rand out of this!

robinduckett 13y ago

I made this already: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/185221 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/185221

alewis2005 13y ago

most cryptographic hyperlink on Hacker News...