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Products that do what artificial life whole cell project does
[1] is a trailer for a project in artificial life. The goal is to create a living artificial cell, based on the chemlambda artificial chemistry. Everything in the trailer is a recording of a real computation, done with the programs from the chemlambda repository. Everything was run on a regular laptop, then screencasted and trimmed. The programs are available for playing at the chemlambda github repository [2] where you can also find more info about the research behind this project. [1] https://vimeo.com/138476341 [2]…
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2013 · nemaload.davidad.org
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Hi HN! I've been exploring what happens when we treat code not as architecture but as a living ecosystem. Demo: https://nabolitains.github.io/plasma/ This started from a simple question: The slime mold Physarum can solve mazes without a brain. What if our code could similarly self-organize? The result is Plasma - computational cells that: - Metabolize energy from their environment - Reproduce with mutations - Form emergent colonies nobody designed - Die (and that's a feature) No ML, no complex algorithms. Just simple rules creating complex behaviors. The entire thing is…
2025 · nabolitains.github.io
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2021 · joelthelion.github.io
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2016 · leverlabs.io
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Build deploy-ready Bubble.io pages in seconds with AI Copy
2023
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2020 · cycell2d.com
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Hi HN, Henrique here from Brex. We just launched a corporate card specially tailored for life sciences companies (https://brex.com/industry/life-sciences), and every time we launch something new we get a lot of questions about how we chose to prioritize this feature or product, so I thought it’d be interesting to share here with the HN community. While I’ve previously posted about launching our initial tech startup card (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17418813), the decision to launch Life Sciences was much different in that we already had two…
2019
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2020 · kirkas.com
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To be specific, the content is generated by a GPT-2 based model. https://amzn.to/2TCc0v2 Let me know if you have any questions :-)
2020
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Compile Verilog code intoDNA data registers right in browser
30d ago · st3ph-x.github.io
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Hey HN, I’ve been working on a Python library and formal framework to make Agentic AI systems less fragile. The core premise is that biological cells are essentially distributed information processors that solved "hallucinations" (noise), "infinite loops" (cancer), and "resource exhaustion" (ischemia) billions of years ago. Instead of just using this as a loose metaphor, I used Applied Category Theory (specifically Polynomial Functors in Poly) to rigorously map Gene Regulatory Networks to Software Agents. Key concepts implemented in the library: * Metabolic Coalgebras: We model token budgets…
Dec 2025 · github.com
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A little game I made to show off an old project. The functionality of the CPU is derived entirely from simulated logic gates. All the operations and control flow are based on the underlying properties of the logic gates, and changing their operation leads to corresponding changes in function. The original game code is all python and it runs in the browser using wasm/pyodide. Not very mobile friendly
2024 · loreley.one
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Finding the balance between humans and machines has been the thread through my career. I always had a thing for AI and couldn't wait for it to actually deliver on what was promised. Now it does, and it's more important than ever that humans and machines keep working well together. AI makes creation trivial. Text, code, design, strategy, in seconds. But one thing AI does not create: independently verifiable proof of when something existed. Reproducing is now cheaper and easier than creating. Chronology becomes contestable at the moment it matters most. The universal problem was known. I…
Mar 2026 · umarise.com
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Two years ago, I turned 50. After a successful career as an entrepreneur, a business angel and a novelist, I set out to start a philanthropic venture under the following constraints: - it had to be global. - it had to be beautiful (in my eyes, at least). - it had to be technology and stats driven. I decided I would try to list the full name and date of birth of all humans alive. While some may find the concept pointless, I immediately knew I had struck gold: - it was global and incredibly hard. - it had an almost artistic quality to it, like an ever-changing installation. - as a libertarian,…
2023 · thepopulationproject.org
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Hey HN, We’ve been experimenting with how to make AI agents more deterministic, observable, and production-safe, and that led us to build AgentML — an open-source language for defining agent behavior as state machines, not prompt chains. My co-founder posted before but linked to the project website instead of the repo, so resharing here. AgentML lets you describe your agent’s reasoning and actions as a finite-state model (think SCXML for agents). Each state, transition, and tool call is explicit and machine-verifiable. That means you can: - Reproduce any decision path deterministically -…
Nov 2025 · github.com
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I've been working on a platform that uses LLMs to turn any random idea into 2-3 minute episodes - one of the newer ones is JARS Tank, where you can pitch inventions to a panel of AI investors. Would love to hear your thoughts!
2024 · jars.ai
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