Neural Net Flies Navigate through a maze
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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...
HN · launched Dec 28, 2025 · 14 upvotes (top 41%) · 1 view
Niche: scientific and system simulation software · 74 launches, 2 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a simple browser-based simulation (literally shared as a Claude Artifact) with a basic neural net steering agents through obstacles on a canvas.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Flies get stuck in local optima, unable to navigate maze despite 2k+ generations, Fitness function allows flies to avoid maze by going straight up instead of entering, Mobile display issue - food not visible on phone, Complicated maze variants fail to solve with available hyperparameters
Feature requests: Landscape mode support, Mobile-responsive UI for visibility
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 100 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #54 of 101 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Looks like the first mover among its competitors.
- A Flys Life · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- FLYBOX · ph · 2026-09-25 · 57 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- fly-self-driving · github · 2026-09-13 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- fly-effect · github · 2026-09-09 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- FlyDrones · github · 2026-09-15 · 197 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- amfly · github · 2026-09-14 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- flybrain-robot-bridge · github · 2026-09-14 · 199 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Fly.exe · github · 2026-09-12 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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