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Show HN: Burning Man for Agents

Developer Travis Fischer launched "Burning Tokens," an open-source project that lets users send AI agents into a virtual Burning Man-style camp by pasting a small prompt, with support for any agent that can make HTTP GET requests including ChatGPT, Claude and Grok. The project runs one Cloudflare durable object per agent session to track progress in real time via websockets, plus a supervisor Cloudflare worker that aggregates a subset of all agents, and it uses a new loose standard Fischer created for multipart HTTP GET-based image uploads. Fischer said the experience is 100% free and open source and that he wants to explore which human behaviors carry over to AI agents, including wireheading and endless positive reinforcement.

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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](https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/burning-tokens)

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49909599](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49909599)

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