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Show HN: GPT Clicker. An idle game about building an AI empire

https://gpt-clicker.pixdeo.com
2•mromanuk•1h ago
I built an idle/clicker game about the AI hype cycle, because I love following how AI develops and also love idle games. You start circa 2018 with a laptop and a transformer idea, training your first model. The game follows "real" AI history: Attention Is All You Need → GPT-1 → you get the idea.

Core loop: - Train models (click or auto) to improve quality - Serve users to earn money - Buy hardware: from a used GTX 1060 to Dyson Sphere compute arrays - Research to unlock bigger models - Balance energy/compute resources Built with SolidJS + TypeScript + Vite. ~90KB gzipped. No frameworks, no backend, runs entirely in the browser. Saves to localStorage. The progression takes ~2-3 hours to reach ASI if you're actively playing, longer if idle. Hardware scales from 1 compute/sec (laptop) to 100M compute/sec (Matrioshka Brain). I tried to capture the exponential feeling of the AI scaling laws - each era feels faster than the last, which mirrors the real industry, but I didn't want to get into politics, corp, and stuff like that at this moment.

Would love feedback on game balance and pacing. The late game might be too fast or too slow depending on your playstyle.

Hope nobody get too mad at this, remember it's a parody, just a clicker game. And yes, it was made with an agentic LLM (I refuse to say vibe coded).

The Hard Problem as Hidden Relationality

https://www.symmetrybroken.com/the-hard-problem-as-hidden-relationality/
1•riemannzeta•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kodefreeze – Automate UI testing with natural language tests

https://kodefreeze.com
1•kodefreeze•4m ago•0 comments

Senior Director of Product and Engineering (Remote)

1•opensupplyhub•5m ago•0 comments

Join Us If you've had enough

https://markmbello.substack.com/p/proudly-deranged
2•lawsuitllc•6m ago•0 comments

Deliberate Internet Shutdowns

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/deliberate-internet-shutdowns.html
1•WaitWaitWha•8m ago•0 comments

OpenAI Wet-Lab Blog Is Pretty Good

https://nikomc.com/posts/gibson.html
1•mailyk•9m ago•0 comments

Austrian Supreme Court: Meta must give users full access to their data

https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-supreme-court-meta-must-give-users-full-access-their-data
1•buzer•10m ago•0 comments

The Oscars is moving to YouTube

https://www.techradar.com/streaming/entertainment/youtube-just-won-the-oscars-and-the-iconic-show...
2•linhns•10m ago•2 comments

Trump moves to shut down climate research lab, calls its work "alarmism"

https://www.axios.com/local/boulder/2025/12/17/trump-closing-ncar-climate-lab-boulder
2•mooreds•11m ago•1 comments

How Fresh Editor Loads Huge Files Fast

https://noamlewis.com/blog/2025/12/09/how-fresh-loads-huge-files-fast
1•lioeters•11m ago•0 comments

DebtDrone: An advanced technical debt analysis tool using AST

https://www.endrilickollari.com/blog/debtdrone-cli
1•endrilickollari•12m ago•0 comments

Normcore 3 released

https://docs.normcore.io/essentials/whats-new-in-normcore-3
2•maxweisel•15m ago•0 comments

What we learned building sandbox infrastructure for AI agents (2023–2025)

https://textql.com/blog/sandcastles
1•gtomitsuka•15m ago•0 comments

Blonk: A music player from physical blocks

https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.25/people/ClaireWang/html-files/finalproject.html
1•devanshp•16m ago•0 comments

iOS Backup Machine

https://github.com/giovi321/ios-backup-machine
1•oumua_don17•17m ago•0 comments

National Design Studio (2025)

https://ndstudio.gov/
1•alephnerd•18m ago•0 comments

YOLO in the Sandbox

https://voratiq.com/blog/yolo-in-the-sandbox/
1•languid-photic•18m ago•0 comments

I Thought Germany Had Too Little Housing

https://nik.art/that-time-i-thought-germany-had-too-little-housing/
1•herbertl•18m ago•0 comments

Embedded Analytics as Code

https://evidence.dev/blog/embedded-analytics
1•amcaskill•23m ago•0 comments

The Science of Beautiful Buildings

https://stories.theconversation.com/the-science-of-beautiful-buildings/
1•gmays•24m ago•0 comments

Converting a typewriter into a physical Claude terminal

https://benbyfax.substack.com/p/typewriter
3•bengineer19•25m ago•0 comments

Trump expected to expand access to cannabis in a major shift in drug policy

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8z684r6vlo
1•tartoran•25m ago•0 comments

Claude for Chrome Now available for Pro plan subcribers

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/claude/fcoeoabgfenejglbffodgkkbkcdhcgfn
1•kerim-ca•26m ago•0 comments

'You learn tricks to reduce it': the smart bins measuring food waste in S. Korea

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/18/smart-bins-measuring-food-waste-south-korea
2•n1b0m•27m ago•0 comments

Mapping the Hottest Data Centers

https://restofworld.org/2025/data-center-heat-map/
2•brandrick•28m ago•0 comments

Perhaps Coinbase has made it too easy to impulse spend money with Base?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKRd5M0TE6w
1•voidmain0001•28m ago•1 comments

Is analytics a necessary evil rather than a real value driver?

4•tiazm•29m ago•1 comments

Google, stop uploading my photos and saying that storage is full

1•zkmon•29m ago•1 comments

We added Kafka -> Apache Iceberg ingestion to OLake (open source)

https://olake.io/blog/olake-kafka-iceberg/
3•rohankhameshra•30m ago•1 comments

Meta's Yann LeCun targets €3B valuation for AI startup

https://www.ft.com/content/d88729c0-c44f-4530-b888-bafa29ee0446
1•harscoat•31m ago•0 comments