Infinite Sugar
a fruit fly emulation given a pleasant life
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HN · launched Sep 8, 2026 · 10 upvotes (top 41%) · 0 views
Niche: scientific and system simulation software · 74 launches, 2 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Simulating a Drosophila connectome of ~140,000 neurons and 2.7M synapses alongside physics emulation in MuJoCo and WebGL involves complex computational neuroscience and biomechanical modeling.
What it would actually take: Building this requires processing multi-gigabyte connectome datasets (FlyWire graph data) into an efficient sparse-matrix leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neural network solver running in WebAssembly or WebGL shaders. In parallel, it couples neural spike rates to biomechanical muscle actuators using MuJoCo WASM bindings and Three.js for 3D rendering. This demands deep expertise in computational neuroscience, connectomics data handling, and high-performance physics simulation.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Fly lacks meaningful movement or behavioral change, Questioning ethical implications of restricting motor functions, Unclear practical utility of the terrarium concept, Concerns about creating another suffering apparatus
Feature requests: Ability to move the fly around within the system
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1584 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #659 of 1585 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 314 days after the earliest competitor.
- Fly.exe · hn · 2026-09-14 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- awesome-fly · github · 2026-09-12 · 382 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- DOOM-x-Fly · github · 2026-09-15 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- openfly · github · 2026-09-11 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- flyhard · github · 2026-09-09 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- FruitflyAI · github · 2026-09-11 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- fruitflysynth · github · 2026-09-16 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- fruitfly · github · 2026-09-13 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.57
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