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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#194
https://janiserdmanis.org/artefacts/EVOTEID-2023-poster.pdf

Current E2E verifiable e-voting systems are complex to deploy and often require a trusted setup phase if fancy zero-knowledge proofs are used. All require coordination of threshold decryption ceremony. Moreover, maintaining bulletin board immutability is considered an easy problem; just replicate it. This necessitates that the e-voting systems are deployed with multiple independent parties that don’t collude, significantly adding to the deployment costs. Deployment can be delegated to a third party, but the tendency to optimise costs would sacrifice “independence” for the parties, which ensures the voter’s anonymity.

Some while ago, I got attached to the idea of anonymising voters’ pseudonyms instead of the votes with which they cast their votes pseudonymously. The anonymisation of the pseudonyms can be done verifiably on untrusted third parties transactionally - meaning when the resulting anonymisation is computed, returned and verified, there are no lingering trust assumptions. Another essential ingredient is a History enabled bulletin board, which provides efficient inclusion and consistency proofs. This enables voter’s client applications to ask bulletin board consistency proofs, ensuring their and others’ vote inclusion in the final tally. The result is a fully centralised e-voting system, PeaceFounder, which a single person can deploy without concerns about integrity or privacy.

More on it can be found on https://peacefounder.org

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#195
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All the URLS I purchased on Name cheap lol.

We need an auction site for unreleased project domains

Honestly, I'd happily give my unused project domains to a fellow hacker who can make better use of them. (If interested, see my profile)

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#196
Go ahead and visit our half-baked site for a collection of old Polish matchbox labels:

wzornik-etykiet.com

Of particular note - a janky filtering system for each label!

Also - no english, yet!

Other quirks: - Individual labels are not linkable, if you want to share one, the link won’t work! - No proper mobile support.

Honestly, this project was a learning experience in React for me, and the code is a mess. No back end, just JSONs and sheets behind it all.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#198

https://ant.care/ https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants I'm making a digital ant farm. SimAnt + Tamagotchi that runs in real-time. Written in Rust/WASM/Bevy The goal is to give people cute ants that do cute ant things 24/7, ask people to look after their ants and feed them once-per-day, and then deny the ability to provide ant care unless users engage in a breathwork/meditation exercise. I would love help. I'm very muc…

I dig it and love ants. Don't think I have time to help but thanks for making the ants :)

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#199
https://digestbox.io (just a design mockup, not even close to "half" baked)

I'm the ArchiveBox.io creator, and I'm experimenting with different ideas to launch a paid version of ArchiveBox for less technical users. ArchiveBox will always remain free and open source, DigestBox would just be a fancy frontend on top of it that handles cloud hosting and provides a nicer UI to make internet archiving more approachable to the average user.

The revenue would go towards supporting open source ArchiveBox development, and would allow me to work on it full-time.

I'd love to get people's feedback on this concept. Let me know if you like the idea of DigestBox and if you'd use it!

I'm also curious if the $0.01/URL pricing sounds reasonable to people. Assuming each page produces 50mb or less of output, that works out to $120/yr to archive 1000 URLs per month.

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