Show HN: Arxiv.org on IPFS

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Post by hugoroussel » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 7:35 AM UTC

Re: Show HN: Arxiv.org on IPFS

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Post by hugoroussel » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 7:37 AM UTC

Build this during an hackathon where I felt like that arXiv was in grand need of a small face lift. Currently not all articles are uploaded. The repository is here : http://github.com/hugoroussel/xirva

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Post by ithinkso » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 8:18 AM UTC

Not to be confused with viXra, which is a sci-fi alternative to arXiv

Re: Show HN: Arxiv.org on IPFS

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Post by hugoroussel » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 8:21 AM UTC

ithinkso wrote: post #3

Not to be confused with viXra, which is a sci-fi alternative to arXiv

I nearly called the project this name without knowing it existed. Thanks for the share.

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Post by woile » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 8:27 AM UTC

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!

Re: Show HN: Arxiv.org on IPFS

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Post by MayeulC » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 8:39 AM UTC

Doesn'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

which says: invalid ipfs path: invalid path "/ipfs/undefined/2011.00052.pdf": invalid CID: expected 1 as the cid version number, got: 31965309853

Re: Show HN: Arxiv.org on IPFS

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Post by hevalon » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 8:40 AM UTC

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 example https://ipfs.io/ipfs/undefined/2107.00082.pdf

But overall, great idea!

Re: Show HN: Arxiv.org on IPFS

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Post by hugoroussel » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 8:41 AM UTC

hevalon wrote: post #7

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 example https://ipfs.io/ipfs/undefined/2107.00082.pdf But overall, great idea!

Not all articles are uploaded yet, it is still WIP.

Re: Show HN: Arxiv.org on IPFS

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Post by hugoroussel » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 8:42 AM UTC

MayeulC wrote: post #6

Doesn'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 which says: invalid ipfs path: invalid path "/ipfs/undefined/2011.00052.pdf": invalid CID: expected 1 as the cid version number, got: 31965309853

Not all articles are uploaded yet, it is still WIP.

Re: Show HN: Arxiv.org on IPFS

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Post by T-A » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 8:49 AM UTC

From the repo [1]:

"research publishing platform that is community based, transparent and censorship resistant" (my emphasis)

"Community members moderate the platform and can increase or decrease the visibility of the uploaded files" (again, my emphasis)

[1] https://github.com/hugoroussel/xirva