Hacker News Reader

Then there's Core War from 1984 [1]. 11 years ago I computationally evolved a warrior (a program competing for virtual resources) and submitted it to the nano hill [2], it's still ranked top 20 to this day. Every few months the hill emails me the stats of someone trying to beat us with a new warrior :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War

[2] http://sal.discontinuity.info/hill.php?key=nano

There is an old artificial life simulator (darwinbots http://wiki.darwinbots.com/w/Main_Page ) that is inspired by grobots-like programming games. Each organism is driven by its own code that can mutate randomly at each reproduction.

I've been trying to produce a web version of it. This is where I got so far (before more or less desisting):

http://darwinjs.herokuapp.com/

Nicely done! Very fluid.

Thanks!

This is why I like reading the comments on HN. I'd never heard of Grobots, it's brilliant!

Grobots looks like RobotWar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSdCtxN96_o