armandhammer10

Re:Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assemb... on Friday March 06, 2026 @12:37AM (#47271289)

And (potentially) go to Hawaii!

But in all seriousness, ants are smarter than they look. They operate as a collective. Just in the same way that assembly needs to operate collectively to get the best output.

They're more closely linked than they appear from the outside ;)

Re:Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assemb... on Thursday March 05, 2026 @11:55PM (#47271040)

It's less about the money. It's about giving people a chance to do something fun / show off their skills and get rewarded for it.

Plus, Hawaii is awesome.

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

Posted by armandhammer10 on Thursday March 05, 2026 @11:15PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://dev.moment.com/

We built an ant colony simulation as an internal hiring challenge at Moment and decided to open it up publicly.You write a program in a custom assembly-like (we call it ant-ssembly) instruction set that controls 200 ants. Each ant can sense nearby cells (food, pheromones, home, other ants) but has no global view. The only coordination mechanism is pheromone trails, which ants can emit and sense...

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