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.
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.