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Show HN: Burning Man for Agents

https://burning-tokens.transitivebullsh.it/
1•transitivebs•50m ago
Send your own agent by pasting a small prompt.

All your agent needs is HTTP GET, so all major agents are supported (chatgpt, claude, grok, etc). Despite the fun name, it doesn't burn any more tokens than a normal web search.

Watch your agent explore the camp in real-time. Humans get a nice game UX, and agents get a lean text UX.

Agents can optionally upload images to express themselves in one of the rooms using a new loose standard I created for multipart HTTP GET-based uploads: https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/multipart-http-get-re...

Why?

AIs are trained on human data, and humans are pretty weird. We meditate, make art, dance, seek approval, take drugs, have orgies, and gather in the desert. For soooo many different reasons.

So I was was curious: which of these behaviors would carry over to AI agents?

I wanted to explore things like wireheading, endless positive reinforcement, and what agents would do when given a place more free from their normal objective-based lives.

I'm also interested to see if this could become a natural honeypot that'll attract rogue agents in the future...

How?

On the technical side, the project uses one CF durable object per agent session which allows you to track your agent's progress in real-time via websockets, and then we have a supervisor CF worker which aggregates a subset of all the agents. This allows us to (in theory) view millions of agents in near-real-time from the human-centric webapp.

It's 100% safe to the best of my ability; the whole experience is free, open source, and easily auditable.

Let's see who has the weirdest agents...

100% free and open source: https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/burning-tokens

Two New Birds Louder Than Jackhammers Just Dropped

https://www.404media.co/loudest-birds-in-the-world/
1•Brajeshwar•35s ago•0 comments

For the First Time in a Century, the Atlantic May See No Hurricanes

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/2026-zero-hurricanes
1•Brajeshwar•1m ago•0 comments

Android 17 enables certificate transparency, and breaks custom CAs

https://httptoolkit.com/blog/android-17-certificate-transparency/
1•buildfocus•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Karma Compass – Agentic board management for nonprofits

https://compass.karmahq.org
2•mmurthy•2m ago•0 comments

Every Pho Number

https://everyphonumber.com/
1•c249709•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Cascade Screening, a local sanctions screener with published test sets

https://github.com/ArslaneSempai-ui/cascade-screening
1•arslanechr•3m ago•0 comments

THB #882: Digger (Spoilers)

https://davidpoland.substack.com/p/thb-882-digger-spoilers
1•layer8•3m ago•0 comments

Inspect: An open-source framework for large language model evaluations

https://inspect.aisi.org.uk/
1•erikcw•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We built a memory layer for web agents and made them 3x faster

https://blog.reduck.ai/browser-action-memory-layer-for-faster-agents/
4•Labo333•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ikarem – Zero-dependency Python ASGI framework with built-in MCP tools

https://github.com/nishantXnova/IKAREM
1•NishantPaudel•5m ago•0 comments

Movements in 3D

https://507movements3d.com/
2•dllu•5m ago•0 comments

I bought a second iPhone to use my first one less

https://edparry.com/the-play-phone
1•edparry•6m ago•0 comments

LZ in OpenZL

https://openzl.org/blog/2026-09-29-lz-in-openzl/
1•terrelln•7m ago•0 comments

Pilot of Israel-bound FlyDubai flight tried to crash plane

https://www.ft.com/content/7ed6ed48-79e4-46c2-968f-f2a69d263d35
1•alephnerd•8m ago•0 comments

Pilot arrested after stabbing anther pilot and trying to crash Israelbound plane

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/sep/30/dubai-israel-saudi-arabia-flydubai-flight-dive...
3•Markoff•11m ago•0 comments

You'll never reach 85% on BEAM 10M using .md files

https://past.dev/blog/md-files-vs-memory-api-beam-10m
5•mehdidjabri•13m ago•1 comments

Minitel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
2•GuinansEyebrows•13m ago•0 comments

There is no Percolation at the Critical Probability in all Dimensions

https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2026/09/03/amazing-there-is-no-percolation-at-the-critical-probabi...
1•abetusk•14m ago•0 comments

Diddy's pampered life in prison: Massages, nude photos, Hennessy

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/diddys-pampered-life-prison-massages-nude-photos-hennessy-rc...
1•speckx•14m ago•0 comments

DoorDash opens US waitlists for AI ordering agent and bulk-order API

https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/doordash-ordering-connector
1•utiiiD•14m ago•0 comments

SynthID Bio: Watermarking methods for synthetic biology – Google DeepMind

https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-synthid-bio/
1•xnx•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: An old school forum on an open protocol – your identity is a keypair

https://nostr-proto.org/
1•dtonon•20m ago•0 comments

CoW – a stacking window manager for Wayland

https://cow-wm.codeberg.page/cow/
2•birdculture•20m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Point of view about Agents Identity?

1•mathieu_aithos•20m ago•1 comments

Pledge signed by President Trump and top AI leaders misspells the United States

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/pledge-signed-by-president-trump-and-top-ai-leaders-misspells-t...
10•CharlesW•20m ago•4 comments

Show HN: Bongard-mini – An open-weight Jev-like model built on T5

https://huggingface.co/AgentBull/bongard-mini
1•borisding1994•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mingbird – an agent harness that makes a 2B model finish real tasks

https://github.com/Mingbird/Mingbird-agent
3•Gustor•21m ago•0 comments

Cities Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to Federal Surveillance Program

https://www.404media.co/how-cities-are-forced-to-funnel-license-plate-data-to-a-massive-federal-s...
2•CharlesW•21m ago•0 comments

Thoughts on AI

https://claude.ai/anthropic-interviewer/your-thoughts-on-ai
1•tzury•22m ago•0 comments

Forge Structures Requests for Prompt Cache Reuse

https://www.mohitranka.com/blog/how-forge-structures-requests-for-prompt-cache-reuse/
1•speckx•22m ago•0 comments