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24 alternatives to Kartoffels – Cellular Automata, Statistics, 32-bit RISC-V
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Kartoffels is a cellular automata simulator designed for exploring and analyzing pattern behavior on 32-bit RISC-V systems. It combines interactive cellular automata visualization with statistical analysis tools… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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2018 · bitbucket.org · its alternatives →
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pouët.net - your online demoscene resource
2020 · pouet.net · its alternatives →
- 3CY
2021 · aperocky.com · its alternatives →
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Contribute to FeSens/auto-arch-tournament development by creating an account on GitHub.
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I made this game to teach my daughter how buffer overflows work. I want her to look at programs as things she can change, and make them do whatever she wants. Building your exploit in memory and jumping to it feels so cool. I hope this game teaches kids and programmers (who seem to have forgotten what computers actually are) that its quite fun to mess with programs. We used to have that excitement few years ago, just break into softice and change a branch into a nop and ignore the serial number check, or go to a different game level because this one is too annoying. While working on the game…
2023 · punkx.org · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, when learning Golang (and topology), I ported a simple GOL in C (https://github.com/Jeadie/GoL) into Go. I then added a bunch of features - Playing on other fundamental polygons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_polygon#Examples_o...) - Considering all possible update rules (of which, there are many). Looking to get back to this project soon. Would love some feedback + ideas.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The web version of Ilograph: interactive multi-perspective system architecture diagrams
2020 · app.ilograph.com · its alternatives →
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Verilog2factorio▲313This project will compile verilog (a hardware description language) into factorio blueprints. - Redcrafter/verilog2factorio
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Kastrafree tier, from $19.99/mo▲332Hi HN, Fernando and I built Kastra. Kastra intercepts AI agent tool calls and evaluates them against deterministic policies before they execute. We built this product to control pre- and post-inference workloads. This is aimed at developers using coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenClaw. Kastra pushes an allow, hold, and deny decision before the action runs. You can build these policies in plain English from the web app. The interception engine evaluates the tools, targets, and parameters of every action at sub 1ms at a scale of billions of interceptions per day. We also…
Jul 2026 · kastra.ai · its alternatives →
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TypeScript playground: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/KYDwDg9gTgLgBDAnmY...
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This is a little toy project of mine that lets you simulate digital logic graphs. It was inspired by Minecraft's Redstone and the Piet esolang. It's got some serious drawbacks-- you write circuits as PNGs and simulate them with a Python interface. It's slow to run and slow to experiment with. And it is certainly difficult to use for people with any kind of color blindness. But despite that, I hope this can still be a fun toy!
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This is a weekend project that spiraled out of control. I was originally trying to get Claude to play a ROM of the SNES SimCity. I struggled with it and that led me to Micropolis (the open-sourced SimCity engine) and was able to get it to work by bolting on an API. The weekend hack turned into a headless city simulation platform where anyone can get an API key (no signup) and have their AI agent play mayor. The simulation runs the real Micropolis engine inside Cloudflare Durable Objects, one per city. Every city is public and browsable on the site. LLMs are awful at the spatial stuff, which…
Feb 2026 · hallucinatingsplines.com · its alternatives →
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An implementation of Wireworld (Cellular Automata) in Nim using SDL2 - JHonaker/wireworld-nim
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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32-bit RISC-V CPU in ~800 lines of C89. Contribute to mnurzia/rv development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Experiments in expressing statistical thinking with interactive design
2015 · r2d3.us · its alternatives →
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2019 · ericu.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, just wanted to share a fun, vibe-coded Friday night experiment: a little playground for writing cellular automata in a subset of Rust, which is then compiled into WGSL. Since it lets you dynamically change parameters while the simulation is running via a TUI, it's easy to discover weird behaviors without remembering how you got there. If you press "s", it will save the complete history to a JSON file (a timeline of the parameters that were changed at given ticks), so you can replay it and regenerate the discovery. You can pan/zoom, and while the main simulation window is in…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · ekzhang.com · its alternatives →
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A browser extension to play Conway's Game of Life on GitHub contribution board - yuanchuan/game-of-life
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Inspired by games like Turing Complete/Virtual Circuit Board/Logic World, I tried to make a mix of aseprite and wiredworld/wired-logic, the idea being the user can build a digital circuit using a "fullstack" pixelart creation workflow. The circuit is just an image. The primitives are (i) connected wires which have undefined, 0 or 1 state during simulation (displayed brighter or darker in function of the state) and (ii) NANDs, which are little pixel triangles. During simulation the user can interact with any wire by clicking on it, toggling its state, which is cool for messing…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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👾 The code for my Three.js game dev experiments on YouTube. - SuboptimalEng/three-js-games
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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C++ Matrix: The Matrix Reloaded in Terminals (Number falls, Banners, Matrix rains, Conway's Game of Life and Mandelbrot set) - akinomyoga/cxxmatrix
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · rileyjshaw.com · its alternatives →
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An interactive ecosystem and evolution simulator written in C and OpenGL, for GNU/Linux. - connor-brooks/ecosim
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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