Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Fly.exe – An EON systems like virtual fruit fly uploaded to computer
Runs the complete released Drosophila male CNS connectome (165,122 neurons, 25.5M edges) inside a physical fly body, in closed loop, on one GPU. - Ibtisam-Mohammad/Fly.exe
Fly.exe runs the complete fruit fly brain connectome—165,122 neurons and 25.5 million connections—simulated on a single GPU and integrated with a physical fly body in real-time closed-loop control. The software is… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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FLYBOX▲57Explore a fruit-fly connectome inside a living sandbox
27d ago · flyboxlab.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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2013 · nemaload.davidad.org · its alternatives →
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A fruit fly simulation receiving continuous sugar stimulation.
Sep 2026 · infinitesugar.cnqso.com · its alternatives →
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E-ink bird frame for Raspberry Pi - real-time bird detection by audio, fully local AI, rendered as real, hand-cut 1800s bird illustrations. - arnegiacomo/fugleramme
Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode on consumer devices. We were always frustrated by the little effort made towards building agentic models that run on budget phones, so we conducted investigations that led to an observation: agentic experiences are built upon tool calling, and massive models are overkill for it. Tool calling is fundamentally retrieval-and-assembly (match query to tool name, extract argument values, emit JSON), not reasoning. Cross-attention…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, Henry from Cactus here! We previously released Cactus Needle, a 14MB agentic LLM for tool call, device use, and structured extraction for phones, wearables, smart homes, small robots and microcontrollers. We got really great feedback here, and have now incorporated the suggestions to release Needle 2. The whole model is a single 14MB binary that runs a full session in 28MB of RAM; 45m parameters at 2bit compression. Needle hits 500 tokens/sec decode speed on a Raspberry Pi 5, sits between 400-1,500 tokens/sec on VR devices like Meta Quest 3S and Apple Vision Pro, and ranges…
Aug 2026 · cactuscompute.com · its alternatives →
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It is a fork of https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/desktop-fly, but with an important update. Now the fly can pick up the scent of the codebase with its neurons and fly straight to the source code of your B2B AI SaaS startup. It has learned to scan its surroundings for agent markers: AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, .cursor/rules, .kiro/steering, and forty others. Anything on the screen that points to these markers becomes a source of the scent - an editor window with an open project, a line in Finder, or a desktop icon. An open project reeks the strongest, while a closed…
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I’m Gabriel, and I’m happy to share a project I’ve been working on for the last few years: Flyde, an open-source visual programming language. Check out the interactive examples and online playground on the website: https://www.flyde.dev. In my last role as an engineering manager for a B2B-oriented product, I authored and reviewed many diagrams for backend applications, mostly for integrations between 2 third-party services. Some of these diagrams were elaborate enough that I started dreaming of a way to simply run a diagram as is; I imagined a “run” button on the top-right…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Arduino UNO-compatible robotic simulation of the C. elegans nematode - nategri/nematoduino
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Fully Homomorphic Encryption Brainfuck virtual machine - f-prime/arcanevm
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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In this simulation, flies are controlled by a neural network. You can adjust the hyperparameters. There's a maze mode, in which flies have to avoid some obstacles. I think the effect is pretty cool. What do you think? updated link: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/5f7017c8-98fb-4d89-a32c-1...
Dec 2025 · claude.ai · its alternatives →
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Easily craft fast Neural Networks on iOS! Use TensorFlow models. Metal under the hood. - xmartlabs/Bender
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Sandboxes aren't enough. Give your agent a real computer and get back to building.
2017 · fly.io · its alternatives →
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Spin up secure sandboxes in ~100 ms
Nov 2025 · hopx.ai · its alternatives →
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Raise a neural network as a pet - a transparent cognitive sandbox where a digital squid learns, grows, and rewires itself via Hebbian learning & Neurogenesis - ViciousSquid/Dosidicus
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A 3.16M-parameter INT4 transformer running entirely in the on-chip memory of a Xilinx Kria KV260. Zero DRAM in the token loop, 59,965 tok/s on the fabric, bit-exact. Chat with it live.
Aug 2026 · mikeayles.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HackerNews, I built this project over the last few weeks as a palette cleanser from a failed game launch. I wanted to learn a bit about AI/Neural-Networks and naively thought I could build a tiny maze-solving AI in a weekend with a 100% solve rate. Well - I couldn't, but I got pretty close. 14 Bytes total model size, and a 96.5% solve rate on unseen mazes. Trained across 46 phases experimenting with different ideas to improve the model (better performance, smaller size). Its quite fun to watch the model attempt to solve the maze, when they fail its usually due to getting stuck in a…
Jul 2026 · con-dog.github.io · its alternatives →
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at a pub in london, 2 weeks ago - I asked myself, if you spawned agents into a world with blank neural networks and zero knowledge of human existence — no language, no economy, no social templates — what would they evolve on their own? would they develop language? would they reproduce? would they evolve as energy dependent systems? what would they even talk about? so i decided to make myself a god, and built WERLD - an open-ended artificial life sim, where the agent's evolve their own neural architecture. Werld drops 30 agents onto a graph with NEAT neural networks that evolve their own…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Unity C# Flappy Bird + Neuroevolution. WebGl demo: http://nfb.gametroleum.com - KrzysztofBogdan/CsNeuroevolutionFlappyBird
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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EyeWire▲57A crowdsourced game to map the 3D structure of the brain
2015 · eyewire.org · its alternatives →
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Local, gradient-free neuro-symbolic memory engine combining Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC/VSA), Hebbian plasticity, and graph triples for offline AI. - roandejager/Hillock
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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