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19 Aug 2026, 5:50 AM	Hacker News	6.0	A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome An open-source macOS desktop pet renders a 3D fruit fly whose behavior is driven by a live spiking simulation of 668 real neurons (~19,000 synaptic connections) from the FlyWire v783 connectome. Your cursor acts as looming input to real LC4/LPLC2 visual neurons; escape triggers only when the Giant Fiber actually spikes through its real synapses (~4 ms latency, matching real fly behavior). The body is procedural since FlyWire contains only brain data, not body geometry. Why: If you teach or learn computational neuroscience, this is a runnable, hackable Swift project showing how a real connectome maps to behavior—not a toy demo with scripted animations. Builders can fork it to explore how connectome data (FlyWire v783, 139,255 neurons total) translates into LIF simulations, and the codebase is small enough (a handful of Swift files plus an ETL script) to read in one sitting. computational-neuroscience connectome swift open-source simulation

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19 Aug 2026, 5:50 AM

Hacker News

6.0

A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome

An open-source macOS desktop pet renders a 3D fruit fly whose behavior is driven by a live spiking simulation of 668 real neurons (~19,000 synaptic connections) from the FlyWire v783 connectome. Your cursor acts as looming input to real LC4/LPLC2 visual neurons; escape triggers only when the Giant Fiber actually spikes through its real synapses (~4 ms latency, matching real fly behavior). The body is procedural since FlyWire contains only brain data, not body geometry.

Why: If you teach or learn computational neuroscience, this is a runnable, hackable Swift project showing how a real connectome maps to behavior—not a toy demo with scripted animations. Builders can fork it to explore how connectome data (FlyWire v783, 139,255 neurons total) translates into LIF simulations, and the codebase is small enough (a handful of Swift files plus an ETL script) to read in one sitting.