Loss. a tiny satire about AI progress
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I wanted to parody where AI seems to be heading. You start as a manual inference unit pressing a button for the next token, then systems take over; agents, sub-agents, approvals, swarms. It’s Universal Paperclips for the agentic AI era, and a small exploration of where predicting the next token might eventually take us. What’s the worst that could happen?
HN · launched Sep 15, 2026 · 38 upvotes (top 18%) · 1 view
Niche: browser-based video games · 380 launches, 21 in the last 7 days ▼ -28% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is an incremental/idle clicker web game built in standard HTML/JavaScript with simple state management and UI timers.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Site hijacks back button
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1900 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #563 of 1901 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 321 days after the earliest competitor.
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