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.
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.