Show HN: Arxiv.org on IPFS

&quot;You can upload your research and publish it on the open web. Members of the community will be able to vote on your research to raise its visibility.&quot;<p>Oh dear.

Hey Hugo, do you have an email I could reach you at? I&#x27;ve been thinking&#x2F;working on these problems for 3 years now and would love to find some smart people to partner with to further develop the ideas. I don&#x27;t have much to show publicly right now, but <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;intpub.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;intpub.org&#x2F;</a> (soon to be scipub.app) is the start.

From the repo [1]:<p>&quot;research publishing platform that is community based, transparent and <i>censorship resistant</i>&quot; (my emphasis)<p>&quot;Community members moderate the platform and <i>can increase or decrease the visibility of the uploaded files</i>&quot; (again, my emphasis)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hugoroussel&#x2F;xirva" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hugoroussel&#x2F;xirva</a>

Just a heads up comment, it seems some of the IPFS links are broken. For example I just visited <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xirva.org&#x2F;categories&#x2F;cs.AI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xirva.org&#x2F;categories&#x2F;cs.AI</a> and all links point to an &quot;undefined&quot; path example <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipfs.io&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;undefined&#x2F;2107.00082.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipfs.io&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;undefined&#x2F;2107.00082.pdf</a><p>But overall, great idea!

Slightly OT, but how is IPFS these days? Every time I&#x27;ve tried using it the past few years it seemed very WIP. Cool sounding protocol though.

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 : <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hugoroussel&#x2F;xirva" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hugoroussel&#x2F;xirva</a>

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

Ah cool… I also took a stab at something similar several years ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ecausarano&#x2F;heron" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ecausarano&#x2F;heron</a><p>Also at the time I was considering IPFS.<p>But I guess the real trick is implementing a WOT to implement peer review and filter out the inevitable junk that will be published

Doesn&#x27;t seem to work (I don&#x27;t have a local gateway on this machine):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xirva.org&#x2F;list&#x2F;eess.IV&#x2F;2011&#x2F;2011.00052" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xirva.org&#x2F;list&#x2F;eess.IV&#x2F;2011&#x2F;2011.00052</a><p>Brings me to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipfs.io&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;undefined&#x2F;2011.00052.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipfs.io&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;undefined&#x2F;2011.00052.pdf</a><p>which says: invalid ipfs path: invalid path &quot;&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;undefined&#x2F;2011.00052.pdf&quot;: invalid CID: expected 1 as the cid version number, got: 31965309853

Hmm, my Firefox here on Ubuntu does not trust that CA for some reason. And clicking &quot;Accept the risk and continue&quot; seems to just land me back at the &quot;Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead&quot; page.

I get an error on several articles to the effect of:<p>invalid ipfs path: invalid path &quot;&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;undefined&#x2F;2107.00648.pdf&quot;: invalid CID: expected 1 as the cid version number, got: 31965309853

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!

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?

Cool.<p>Now the same for Sci-Hub?

Search bar doesn&#x27;t seem to be working...

does the upload here also submit to arxiv, or will uploading to xivra mean they diverge?

What if <i>every</i> paper was on IPFS? Whenever I try to read an obscure paper published before 1990, the paper is usually behind a paywall.