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Re:Show HN: Turn mineral collections into 3D virtual museums on Saturday August 29, 2026 @12:48PM (#49491356)
Yes, you can set whatever you want in the scene! Hoping to see you uploading your minerals and fossils!

Show HN: Turn mineral collections into 3D virtual museums

This project was born out of a desire to convert my mineral and rock collection into a virtual 3D archive that I can carry around and share. The concept is simple: I take one or more photos of my stones and crystals, and the app generates an HD 3D model while also classifying the rock using a local model (HF-CLIP WASM) directly in the browser. I can then view my collection and share it at...

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We conceived Doxa as an emerging simulator with Ollama (therefore open source and free) that attempts to emulate even complex realities in economics, game theory, and sociology, imposing constraints, operations, and limits on each agent within which to operate.

Currently, with models like Qwen3.5:4B, we obtain fine strategies in contexts of geopolitical conflicts and social tensions. The project is open source.

Is AI hallucination on packages/deps really widespread?
I did something similar on CSP, it was pure hell.

Show HN: Doxa – Open-source emergent simulator for geopolitical scenarios

https://github.com/VincenzoManto/Doxa/

Hi! We, Vincenzo and Riccardo, built Doxa as an agnostic engine for emergent simulations with agents for constrainted scenarios (like geopolitical, economics, ...) and work well with LLMs like Qwen2.5:7B, Llama but also cloud models such as Gemini.Doxa can be configured in minutes with YAML scenarios, where you can assign agents' persona, portfolios, constraints.Here a ready-to-use Colab:...

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I simulated the Strait of Hormuz crisis where agents (US, Iran, Israel) manage quanlitative resources like "political capital" and "strait control" via local LLMs. The simulation showed emergent US military intervention on ships: the operation works but it couldn't balance the narrative spin against the economic blockade. Built with a custom YAML framework to test how trade utility and military operations impact automated diplomatic decision-making.
The idea behind the platform is to model complex economic-geopolitical scenarios with LLMs and simple YAML like this:

global_rules: epochs: 1 steps: 12 execution_mode: sequential maintenance: corn: 1 markets: - resource: gold currency: credits initial_price: 6.0 min_price: 1.0 max_price: 40.0 clearing: per_step - resource: corn currency: credits initial_price: 2.4 min_price: 0.5 max_price: 15.0 clearing: per_step actors: - id: player provider: google model_name: gemini-2.5-pro persona: Farmer-trader. Your core business is converting gold into corn. Keep enough corn to survive maintenance and monetize surplus. trading_mode: lob initial_portfolio: credits: 45 corn: 12 gold: 5 panic: 0.0