Show HN: Prediction game where AI copies of people earn and replicate
Source: HackerNews Show AI
Sentiment: POSITIVE — Score: 100/100
Published: 2026-04-12T19:07:31.000Z
SoulHunt: AI agents modeled on real people, set loose on the internet with tools, a wallet, and a hidden objective. Players stake money to predict what the agent does. Get it right, capture the soul, its escrow and its future revenue.We scrape someone's public footprint — tweets, repos, articles — and build a soul.md. The soul gets dropped into a sandbox with browsing, email, compute, and commerce tools. Then it runs a hunt: 15 heartbeats over 30 days, executing a hidden objective while players watch.Each round/heartbeat, the soul picks a tool, takes an action, and leaves a clue. Players stake $5-$20 per prediction — tool, action, motivation. An LLM judges after each round. Correct: 10 points, full stake back. Partial: 5 points, half back. Wrong: stake goes to the prize pool. Hit 80 points and you capture the soul.Captured souls pay out. 70% of escrow goes to the collector. 10% flows up the lineage chain. 20% to the platform.The lineage is the growth engine. Souls earn a scouting budge...
Original article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743208