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CoTFly

A fruit fly in a tiny tank helmet plays Claude of Tanks. Live spiking neurons, a miniature 3D cockpit, and autonomous battles with 171 vehicles and 30 maps. Built with Three.js and TypeScript. Play in your browser.

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GITHUB · launched Sep 12, 2026 · 11 upvotes (top 68%) · 0 views

Niche: browser-based video games · 380 launches, 21 in the last 7 days ▼ -28% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Media & entertainment
  • Content generation
  • B2C
  • AI feature
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • browser-game
  • claude-of-tanks
  • computational-neuroscience
  • connectomics
  • cotfly
  • embodied-ai
  • +9 more

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Could you build this?

Partial The browser front-end and Three.js game environment are accessible, but adapting real connectome biological data into a stable leaky integrate-and-fire dynamic simulation that drives tank controls requires computational neuroscience modeling.

What it would actually take: Stack uses TypeScript, Three.js, and Web Audio. The challenging part is ingesting the Janelia/Cambridge MaleCNS connectome graph, mapping synaptic weight models into a real-time discrete-time leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) numerical solver at 1ms steps, and designing biological sensorimotor transfer functions that translate game telemetry into neural input currents without model instability.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 106 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #87 of 107 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 222 days after the earliest competitor.

  • TapeOutTank · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • KlipZi City · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • fly-self-driving · github · 2026-09-13 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.40
  • A Flys Life · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
  • DOOM-x-Fly · github · 2026-09-15 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.39
  • Neon Shift · ph · 2026-09-18 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.39
  • SHOOOOONG · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
  • miniz.fun · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38

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