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DenisSergeevitch
desktop-fly
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DenisSergeevitch / desktop-fly

desktop-fly

A 3D fruit fly living on your macOS desktop, driven by a live spiking simulation of the real FlyWire connectome

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What to know before exploring

What it is

A 3D fruit fly living on your macOS desktop, driven by a live spiking simulation of the real FlyWire connectome

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.

No classified warning is attached to this page. Read the discussions before treating silence as approval.

Also in these discussions

No other repository is repeatedly linked in the same discussions.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by 3-hour interval3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-08-18 21:50:33 UTC to 2026-08-22 03:27:54 UTC.

012026-08-18 21:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsAug 18, 21:002026-08-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-19 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-19 03:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-19 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-19 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-19 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-19 09:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-19 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-19 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-19 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-19 15:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-19 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-19 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-19 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-19 21:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-20 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-20 03:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-20 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-20 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-20 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-20 09:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-20 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-20 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-20 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 20, 12:002026-08-20 15:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-20 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-20 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-20 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-20 21:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-21 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-21 03:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-21 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-21 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-21 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-21 09:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-21 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-21 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-21 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-21 15:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-21 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-21 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-21 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-21 21:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-22 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-22 03:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-22 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsAug 22, 03:00

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

View mention counts and date ranges
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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Aug 18, 21:002026-08-18 21:00:00 UTC2026-08-19 00:00:00 UTC110
Aug 19, 00:002026-08-19 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-19 03:00:00 UTC000
Aug 19, 03:002026-08-19 03:00:00 UTC2026-08-19 06:00:00 UTC000
Aug 19, 06:002026-08-19 06:00:00 UTC2026-08-19 09:00:00 UTC000
Aug 19, 09:002026-08-19 09:00:00 UTC2026-08-19 12:00:00 UTC000
Aug 19, 12:002026-08-19 12:00:00 UTC2026-08-19 15:00:00 UTC000
Aug 19, 15:002026-08-19 15:00:00 UTC2026-08-19 18:00:00 UTC000
Aug 19, 18:002026-08-19 18:00:00 UTC2026-08-19 21:00:00 UTC000
Aug 19, 21:002026-08-19 21:00:00 UTC2026-08-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20, 00:002026-08-20 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-20 03:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20, 03:002026-08-20 03:00:00 UTC2026-08-20 06:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20, 06:002026-08-20 06:00:00 UTC2026-08-20 09:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20, 09:002026-08-20 09:00:00 UTC2026-08-20 12:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20, 12:002026-08-20 12:00:00 UTC2026-08-20 15:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20, 15:002026-08-20 15:00:00 UTC2026-08-20 18:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20, 18:002026-08-20 18:00:00 UTC2026-08-20 21:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20, 21:002026-08-20 21:00:00 UTC2026-08-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 21, 00:002026-08-21 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-21 03:00:00 UTC000
Aug 21, 03:002026-08-21 03:00:00 UTC2026-08-21 06:00:00 UTC000
Aug 21, 06:002026-08-21 06:00:00 UTC2026-08-21 09:00:00 UTC000
Aug 21, 09:002026-08-21 09:00:00 UTC2026-08-21 12:00:00 UTC000
Aug 21, 12:002026-08-21 12:00:00 UTC2026-08-21 15:00:00 UTC000
Aug 21, 15:002026-08-21 15:00:00 UTC2026-08-21 18:00:00 UTC110
Aug 21, 18:002026-08-21 18:00:00 UTC2026-08-21 21:00:00 UTC000
Aug 21, 21:002026-08-21 21:00:00 UTC2026-08-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 22, 00:002026-08-22 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-22 03:00:00 UTC000
Aug 22, 03:002026-08-22 03:00:00 UTC2026-08-22 06:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

3 sources
kulikov0·Aug 21, 2026Submission

Show HN: A desktop fly drawn to the scent of vibecode

It is a fork of https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/desktop-fly, but with an important update. Now the fly can pick up the scent of the codebase with its neurons and fly straight to the source code of your B2B AI SaaS startup. It has learned to scan its surroundings for agent markers: AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, .cursor/rules, .kiro/steering, and forty others. Anything on the screen that points to these markers becomes a source of the scent - an editor window with an open project, a line in Finder, or a desktop icon. An open project reeks the strongest, while a closed icon or nested folders give off a fainter odor.
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