It says I'm disconnected after a couple seconds too. Also, like most browser games, it manages to rev up the fan on my fairly modern laptop almost immediately.
New users don't make the front page very often, which is maybe not something to be proud of. You'll see more at https://hackernews.hn/newest, and https://hackernews.hn/noobstories if you want the motherlode. It looks like one has to be logged in to see green usernames, which I'd forgotten.
In the current case we saw CaHoop's earlier submission of this project, which got killed by an overzealous spam filter, and invited him to repost it.
