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flywire-fly-lab

把果蝇全脑连接组跑在一台 16GB 笔记本上:接身体、做成浏览器游戏、17,628 次虚拟敲除。完整记录能做什么、做不到什么,以及自查出的每一处错误。Code GPL-3.0+, data CC BY-NC.

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GITHUB · launched Sep 15, 2026 · 12 upvotes (top 63%) · 0 views

Niche: scientific and system simulation software · 74 launches, 2 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Healthcare
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • brian2
  • computational-neuroscience
  • connectome
  • drosophila
  • flywire
  • neural-simulation
  • +2 more

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Could you build this?

No Simulating a complete fruit fly (Drosophila) connectome on a laptop and linking it to a virtual body involves cutting-edge computational neuroscience, biophysics, and highly optimized sparse-graph simulation.

What it would actually take: The project builds on the FlyWire whole-brain dataset (~130k neurons and millions of synapses), requiring optimized sparse matrix computation or spiking neural network frameworks (e.g., in C++, Rust, or CUDA/Metal) to simulate neural dynamics within memory constraints (16GB RAM). It must also model biomechanics and sensory-motor loops for the virtual fly body, translating simulated motor neuron firing into physical movement in a physics simulation engine. This demands advanced computational neuroscience expertise and high-performance scientific computing skills.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 173 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #99 of 174 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 318 days after the earliest competitor.

  • fly-wirehead · github · 2026-09-10 · 118 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • glimmer · github · 2026-09-15 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • CFScan · github · 2026-11-03 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • cmp90hx_pwner · github · 2026-09-14 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • CVE-2026-97229-PoC · github · 2026-10-13 · 59 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • PCR_CB_GA · github · 2026-11-11 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.40
  • CVE-2026-111497-POC · github · 2026-10-22 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.40
  • SCSKillerSchineseLanguagePatch · github · 2026-10-31 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.39

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