Between Tokens
an interactive piece where you are the language model
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HN · launched Aug 15, 2026 · 9 upvotes (top 47%) · 0 views
Niche: creative text and content generators · 63 launches, 9 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 63 launches in creative text and content generators →
Could you build this?
Yes This is an interactive, browser-based narrative artwork built in vanilla JavaScript, HTML, and CSS simulating language model generation mechanics through UI interactions.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Transformer Explainer (poloclub.github.io), Redwood Research's guess-the-next-token game, Loom-style interfaces for branching model output
Feature requests: Support additional parameters (top_p, top_k) beyond temperature, Add more scenarios for exploration
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1887 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #904 of 1888 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 290 days after the earliest competitor.
- tiktokenizer · github · 2026-11-05 · 50 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Steerling-8B, a language model that can explain any token it generates · hn · 2026-02-24 · 328 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Language Model Builder (an app to learn about and build models) · hn · 2026-07-21 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- animaflux · github · 2026-09-12 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Stanford-CS336 · github · 2026-10-03 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- chinese-web-typography · github · 2026-10-13 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Refusal-in-Language-Models · github · 2026-10-02 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- teachable-code · github · 2026-11-03 · 47 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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