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Show HN: Burn, baby, burn (those tokens)

A satirical bash one-liner that deliberately consumes Claude Code tokens to fake high productivity, top internal leaderboards, pad OKRs, and justify bigger AI budgets next year.

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Because nothing says "AI-native" like a six-figure token bill

A bash one-liner that burns Claude Code tokens on purpose.

burn 50000 # burn 50,000 tokens

Features

📈 Make the CEO see how productive you are. 🔥

💸 Investors will see how AI-innovative your company is. 🚀

🏆 Top the internal Claude Code leaderboard. 👑

📊 Pad your OKRs. ✅

🦄 Justify next year's bigger AI budget. 💰

Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dtnewman/burn-baby-burn/main/install.sh | bash

Drops burn into ~/.local/bin — no sudo, no Homebrew tap. Needs Claude Code authenticated on your PATH and jq (brew install jq).

Usage

burn 10000 # the minimum burn 50000 --model haiku # cheap and fast burn 100000 --model sonnet # walk away

License

MIT (but it's all vibe-coded so who really knows who owns it?). Burn responsibly. 🔥

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