[HN Gopher] Show HN: A website that auctions itself daily
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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
Author : nsomani
Score : 12 points
Date : 2026-01-09 01:59 UTC (21 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.thedailyauction.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.thedailyauction.com)
| x______________ wrote:
| 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?
| nsomani wrote:
| 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.
| TZubiri wrote:
| 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.
| ge96 wrote:
| 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)?.
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