Google maps entire brain and central nervous system of adult male fruit fly, software engineers immediately make it run Doom — AI-powered 3D model of over 166,000 neurons can also play Super Mario 64

Scientists mapped the complete brain and central nervous system of an adult male fruit fly for the first time. Days later the full MaleCNS v1.0 fruit fly connectome was being trained to play Doom and Mario 64.

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Walk through a 3D cyberpunk city built purely from ASCII characters — a text-based metropolis runs on a 283KB Rust WebAssembly engine feeding a WebGL renderer
 Walk through a 3D cyberpunk city built purely from ASCII characters — a text-based metropolis runs on a 283KB Rust WebAssembly engine feeding a WebGL renderer

Solo developer Grow Now! Games has put a playable browser build of its walkable ASCII cyberpunk city online, powered by a 283KB Rust WebAssembly engine and rendered in WebGL.

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Mind-bending self-replicating GIF code prints an exact copy of itself, is both a program and its own visual output — champion coder shows off ‘Piet Quine’ technique

A champion coder’s latest confection is a Piet Quine – a GIF image that prints itself byte-for-byte.

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Daring coder gets Doom running with regular expressions at 180 seconds per frame, like playing ‘correspondence chess with a shotgun’ — nearly 14 million substitutions to render a frame at 80,000 substitutions per second

Daring coder gets Doom running with regular expressions at 180 seconds per frame by using one text string to the machine, engine, and video output

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Former Epic director is building a European rival to the Unreal and Unity game engines — ‘The Immense Engine’ dev sees opportunity for AI agents to ‘do the work of ten or fifteen people’

A heavyweight games industry veteran says he is building a fully European alternative to popular games engines from American and Chinese companies.
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Developer creates a basic first person shooter game using Gaussian splats, and you can play it for free in your browser

It’s not much of a game, but it’s an impressive proof of concept for the novel technology.

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Enterprising developer somehow writes an x86 CPU emulator in plain CSS — no Javascript, no WASM, just stylesheet computing

Enterprising developer somehow writes an x86 CPU emulator in plain CSS

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Low-Vision Programmers Can Now Design 3D Models Independently
 Low-Vision Programmers Can Now Design 3D Models Independently

Most 3D design software requires visual dragging and rotating—posing a challenge for blind and low-vision users. As a result, a range of hardware design, robotics, coding, and engineering work is inaccessible to interested programmers. A visually-impa…

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