Show HN: A website that auctions itself daily

Hi HN, I built this side project earlier this week. It executes an English auction on Solana with a reserve price of 0.1 SOL. Auction winner gets control of a Codex editor. Auction losers get refunded (minus a <$0.01 processing fee). The Codex agent operates in a sandbox and can only output HTML/JS/CSS.

The project is open-source: https://github.com/neelsomani/the-daily-auction

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x______________ 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Assuming the codex editor is the editor for the area below the auction counter, isn't that a security vulnerability that can put the site audience at risk?

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nsomani 12 hours ago | parent [-]

The Codex agent is only given tools to edit the single HTML file that displays on the homepage. The page is on a separate domain, so there's no cookie sharing, and the iFrame is in a sandbox. That said, the biggest risk is social engineering attacks.

	▲	hsbauauvhabzb 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		What’s to stop someone rewriting the iframe wrapper to hide the real iframe and display a fake one?

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A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I am sure that there will be detractors, who will tell you that it has been done before ( and in a sense, it is true; nihil novi and all that ). That said, this is done in a way that moves a little closer to that fascinating reality present in 'transmetropolitan' graphic novels, where things online are in near constant flux. Kudos.

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TZubiri 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Fuck, another brilliant idea that was easy to make, but I didn't do.

It reminds me of the million dollar website where each pixel was sold as advertisement.

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lapetitejort 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Since then a million other "million _____" websites popped up. I saw a site selling one million text lines for $1 apiece. Last I saw they sold one line, now the site is gone [edit: INCORRECT].

Found the site: https://www.themillionlines.com/

	▲	Imustaskforhelp 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They sold around 632 for what its worth no?

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ge96 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I also think that's one of those lucky/momentum deals, wasn't it each pixel was $1 or were they worth more? There are a million companies out there (to ask)?.

	▲	duskwuff 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They only sold in 10x10 increments (for $100).
	▲	BizarroLand 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		From what I remember, some people bought sections so their company icon was visible on the page.

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falloutx 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

there are thousands of this over the internet.