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I get the concept, but why is this interesting to HN? The page has very little about how it works (security / trust / identity), there is nothing about tech st

I get the concept, but why is this interesting to HN? The page has very little about how it works (security / trust / identity), there is nothing about tech stack or open source. These are going to be paramount in any civics platform, b/c transparency and the trust-pocolipse.

gucduck 9mo ago
That’s fair feedback. I’ve updated the post to include a section with more implementation details. It’s currently built with Next.js and Firebase. Responses are stored separately from identity data, there are no public profiles, and only aggregate results are exposed in the UI. Verification is used to increase resistance to bots, but answers are not tied to public identity. I agree that any civic platform lives or dies on transparency right now. I’m actively considering showing the question schemas and aggregation logic so the mechanics are inspectable rather than opaque. If you have strong opinions on what absolutely must be open versus what can reasonably remain closed, I’d genuinely value that perspective. This is still early and the landing page is pretty barebones, but the core web app and data model are where most of the effort has gone so far.
- verdverm 9mo ago
  > That’s fair feedback. This is increasingly looking like the tell tale for Ai bots masquerading as humans. I've heard essentially this phrase as the first in several recent interactions which ended up being bots. Can you prove your humanity? Bots and agents are not allowed on HN
  - gucduck 9mo ago
    Oh that's just part of my vocabulary. lol. Um, my username is gucduck on all socials if that helps? And this is my personal website: gucduck.com
    - gucduck 9mo ago
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    - verdverm 9mo ago
      I've been dealing with clawd spam, and likely being more/overly sensitive to it it's good vocab and writing to have! I wonder how much longer we will have easy indicators
      - gucduck 9mo ago
        No worries, I appreciate the intention. It definitely feels like we’re getting close to not having any easy indicators whatsoever.
        verdverm 9mo ago
        They are now writing their HN launch readmes before any code... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009000 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009000
- verdverm 9mo ago
  There are people working on similar ideas in the ATmosphere / ATProto, are you tuned into that at all?
  - gucduck 9mo ago
    I wasn’t before, but I am now. Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll dig into AT Protocol and see what’s happening there.
    - verdverm 9mo ago
      AT has people generally working on the next generation of shared infra for social and much more. Come join us! https://discord.atprotocol.dev https://discord.atprotocol.dev (should work, best entrypoint to the dev community) I like sharing this one for new devs: https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers
      - gucduck 9mo ago
        Consider me an ATProto Toucher :)
        verdverm 9mo ago
        lol, changing that name has been bikeshed a number of times

gucduck 9mo ago

That’s fair feedback. I’ve updated the post to include a section with more implementation details. It’s currently built with Next.js and Firebase. Responses are stored separately from identity data, there are no public profiles, and only aggregate results are exposed in the UI. Verification is used to increase resistance to bots, but answers are not tied to public identity. I agree that any civic platform lives or dies on transparency right now. I’m actively considering showing the question schemas and aggregation logic so the mechanics are inspectable rather than opaque. If you have strong opinions on what absolutely must be open versus what can reasonably remain closed, I’d genuinely value that perspective. This is still early and the landing page is pretty barebones, but the core web app and data model are where most of the effort has gone so far.

verdverm 9mo ago
> That’s fair feedback. This is increasingly looking like the tell tale for Ai bots masquerading as humans. I've heard essentially this phrase as the first in several recent interactions which ended up being bots. Can you prove your humanity? Bots and agents are not allowed on HN
- gucduck 9mo ago
  Oh that's just part of my vocabulary. lol. Um, my username is gucduck on all socials if that helps? And this is my personal website: gucduck.com
  - gucduck 9mo ago
    [dead]
  - verdverm 9mo ago
    I've been dealing with clawd spam, and likely being more/overly sensitive to it it's good vocab and writing to have! I wonder how much longer we will have easy indicators
    - gucduck 9mo ago
      No worries, I appreciate the intention. It definitely feels like we’re getting close to not having any easy indicators whatsoever.
      - verdverm 9mo ago
        They are now writing their HN launch readmes before any code... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009000 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009000
verdverm 9mo ago
There are people working on similar ideas in the ATmosphere / ATProto, are you tuned into that at all?
- gucduck 9mo ago
  I wasn’t before, but I am now. Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll dig into AT Protocol and see what’s happening there.
  - verdverm 9mo ago
    AT has people generally working on the next generation of shared infra for social and much more. Come join us! https://discord.atprotocol.dev https://discord.atprotocol.dev (should work, best entrypoint to the dev community) I like sharing this one for new devs: https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers
    - gucduck 9mo ago
      Consider me an ATProto Toucher :)
      - verdverm 9mo ago
        lol, changing that name has been bikeshed a number of times