Neural Net Flies Navigate through a maze
Details
- External ID
- 46411683
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Neural Net Flies Navigate through a maze
- Website domain
- claude.ai
- Launched
- Dec. 28, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 14
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5868320610687023
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
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...
Enrichment
- Theme
- fruit fly connectome applications
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- neural network maze navigation demo
- Manually corrected
- False
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
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Attention rank: #38 of 65 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Looks like the first mover among its competitors.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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