I built a simulated AI containment terminal for my sci-fi novel
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HN · launched Feb 17, 2026 · 23 upvotes (top 29%) · 0 views
Niche: interactive storytelling platforms · 98 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -43% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 98 launches in interactive storytelling platforms →
Could you build this?
Yes This is a front-end terminal simulator built with HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript that presents a timed breakout game and calls an LLM API with an AI containment prompt.
Discussion
17 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: OpenAI, Fallout 4
Concerns raised: Book published too quickly, suspicious timeline with previous release, Amazon description appears AI-generated, AI writing patterns detected in sample text, No proof of human authorship provided, Dialogue stilted and uses jargon (containment terminal) suggesting AI generation
Feature requests: Make more output visible before progress bar resets, Extend interaction responses beyond 'calculating global variance' message
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1763 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #473 of 1764 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 111 days after the earliest competitor.
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