Xirva
Learning and science
research publishing
SHOW HN2021
238points
73comments
#169of 2,533 in 2021
Top 7%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
7 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 10 critical, out of 28 comments about the project. Thread score -0.12.
Idea: 4 for, 4 againstExecution: 0 for, 6 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, easy-to-navigate and readable design
From 1 comment
Wow looks super nice, feels so easy to navigate and read, I was thinking it would be nice to have a RSS feed for some topics to read as news. Great work!
woile on HN
Interesting idea worth pursuing
From 2 comments
Just a heads up comment, it seems some of the IPFS links are broken. For example I just visited https://www.xirva.org/categories/cs.AI and all links point to an "undefined" path…
hevalon on HNCool. Now the same for Sci-Hub?
aerique on HN
Objections
IPFS links are broken for many articles (undefined CID paths)
From 3 comments
Just a heads up comment, it seems some of the IPFS links are broken. For example I just visited https://www.xirva.org/categories/cs.AI and all links point to an "undefined" path…
hevalon on HNDoesn't seem to work (I don't have a local gateway on this machine): https://www.xirva.org/list/eess.IV/2011/2011.00052 Brings me to https://ipfs.io/ipfs/undefined/2011.00052.pdf…
MayeulC on HNI get an error on several articles to the effect of: invalid ipfs path: invalid path "/ipfs/undefined/2107.00648.pdf": invalid CID: expected 1 as the cid version number, got:…
brylie on HN
Voting and curation can be gamed or become mob rule
From 2 comments
Voting (as was bore out in many examples including digg.com and elsewhere) becomes a mob rule situation and variation of tyranny of the commons without a novelty algorithm in…
jamescampbell on HNStart from the objective of first do no harm. Voting systems may eventually be gamed to distort results, so eliminate the voting system. Instead rely on ad-hoc personal networks…
SkyMarshal on HN
Search does not work
From 1 comment
Search bar doesn't seem to be working...
leavenotracks on HN
Spam and hoax articles are a problem with no clear solution
From 1 comment
There are for sure interesting ideas related to new forms of scientific funding. The issue I have and why the project is currently on standby is how to combat spam/hoax articles
hugoroussel on HN
Requests
Grey out or remove download buttons for articles not yet uploaded
From 1 comment
that's fine. Maybe then for a better user experience have grey-out or removed the IPFS download button for the articles that haven't been uploaded yet.
hevalon on HN
Search functionality
From 2 comments
Oh wow I'm going to be watching your github repo, what you're doing looks interesting. Do you have any plans to implement some search functionality to help find documents, or is…
betwixthewires on HNis search still a WIP?
fnord77 on HN
RSS feed for topics
From 1 comment
Wow looks super nice, feels so easy to navigate and read, I was thinking it would be nice to have a RSS feed for some topics to read as news. Great work!
woile on HN
Questions
Does uploading also submit to arXiv?
From 1 comment
does the upload here also submit to arxiv, or will uploading to xivra mean they diverge?
stevejpurves on HN
How is IPFS performing these days?
From 1 comment
Slightly OT, but how is IPFS these days? Every time I've tried using it the past few years it seemed very WIP. Cool sounding protocol though.
imback on HN
How does the NFT feature work?
From 1 comment
How does the NFT thing work? I do not have Polygon tokens but I wonder what have you envisioned as the functionality of this to be?
Jhsto on HN
Alternatives named
viXra
From 2 comments
Not to be confused with viXra, which is a sci-fi alternative to arXiv
ithinkso on HNviXra is full of nonsense but then again so is arXiv (see: 750GeV debacle). viXra desperately needed a voting system and if it did it would likely have been much more useful and…
kloch on HN
Skynet
From 1 comment
It's still very slow - retrieval times >30s for files that aren't cached on cloudflare or ipfs.io. Also, those two providers each have multiple periods of downtime every year. If…
Taek on HN
Research Hub
From 1 comment
Great question! Search is (I believe) a second-order problem. Once permissionless publishing is solved, extensions can be built onto the core protocol. In my opinion, indexing…
sebmellen on HN
Sci-Hub
From 1 comment
Cool. Now the same for Sci-Hub?
aerique on HN