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Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language

That's really cute, it reminds me that Will Wright (creator of The Sims) has referenced this book "The Ants", by Bert Holldobler in multiple occasions as a key inspiration for his games (and in particular SimAnt) and systems thinking. Did you come across that during your research phase or had you not heard about it? I haven't read it yet, but maybe someday I'll get around to it.
by TheAceOfHearts1772791798
Cool. This is how I imagine the ants were programmed by the spiders in Children of Time.
by JetSetIlly1772798934
what is this? assembly for ants?
by i_am_a_squirrel1772775340
So.... a sort of modern Corewar?
by anta401772810376
The amount of effort put into this tool...just for hiring to your exact shop? I cannot imagine that's a good return on investment?
by orsorna1772809461
Did website break?

I only see "MOMENT" and "All systems nominal"

by RandomTeaParty1772794706
Reminds me of my personal HN glory days, now 16 years ago!! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1395726
by phreeza1772796226
I think I read a Daniel Suarez book about this once.
by nozzlegear1772784281
Orwell would suggest you use the word normal.
by general_reveal1772798936
I wish I could read dark-mode but my eyes somehow cannot handle it (not just on that website, in general).
by kleiba1772784519
This is really quite cool.
by Thanakorn_5511772800618
What's with "artesenal"? Is this a joke that I don't understand or a surprising way to write "artisanal"?
by macleginn1772809972
All dark themes are too low contrast. Give me pure white (including comments) on pure black please.
by ivanjermakov1772807299
Wait what this is the best reason to write a bunch of assembly AND learn about ants?
by 4b11b41772775205
This is a balancing act between collectors and explorers. There is probably some optimized number. Likely targeted at beginners.
by nurettin1772775426
Am I being dumb? I was expecting to see ability to look at and run some canned sim
by FpUser1772794770
Why? =>

"Moment Engineering by Moment Technology wants to access your {GitHub account name} account Personal user data Email addresses (read-only), profile information (read-only) This application will be able to read your private email addresses and read your private profile information."

by TruffleLabs1772772451
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by jackfranklyn1772788240
Nice way of hiring but is it really worth it to give the public a trip to Maui (kinda expensive these days)

Does it really reveal that much talent to make it worth the money?

Just curious

by sudo_cowsay1772772242
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by mdk0171772809857
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by Uptrenda1772785609