Why “Cloning” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
besides what the others replied, cloning can be done by people with very little skill in the area and in general it's always way easier to work from a proven design (existing ga…
by djmips · Oct 31, 2026
Cloning existing games can be done with little to no work. Building something new is challenging, with or without AI its orders of magnitude slower than copying. Building someth…
by kingstnap · Oct 31, 2026
I honestly don't see the appeal in cloning existing games. Why not leverage the tools to design and build new games? There are so many mechanics, niches and genres yet to be exp…
by neovive · Oct 31, 2026
This will work for approximately a year until ablated open weights models catch up, and then it will be open season. My 2c is that we need to figure out reputation systems that…
by asdfasgasdgasdg · Oct 31, 2026
Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering
by gloxkiqcza · Oct 31, 2026 · 43 points
Thanks, you've correctly identified the issue, although I wouldn't call it a problem with "my" OS unless it's my configuration. I just wanted to read the source locally. I know…
by eterm · Oct 30, 2026
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "cloning" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "cloning" over time.
Cloning is the process of producing individual organisms with identical genomes, by either natural or artificial means. In nature, some organisms produce clones through asexual reproduction; this reproduction of an organism by itself without a mate is known as parthenogenesis. In the field of biotechnology, cloning is the process of creating cloned organisms of cells and of DNA fragments. Read more on Wikipedia