Thanks, that's a big help! I think actually the Conway's Life community does quite regularly have "interesting things" that could fit the Show HN model.
The example I'm thinking most about is the fixed-cost 15-glider construction for absolutely anything that's glider-constructible at all --
for which we do have some eminently runnable code that showcases the entire process of 15-glider construction from beginning to end, with subtitles ...
... running inside Golly, but that's a free download, and the Lua script version doesn't need any extra Python installation or configuration or anything.
So if I don't get too much "Nah don't do that" feedback here, I might try putting up a Show HN post for the new super-optimized RCT15 project, once the last pieces of that get completed.
The example I'm thinking most about is the fixed-cost 15-glider construction for absolutely anything that's glider-constructible at all --
for which we do have some eminently runnable code that showcases the entire process of 15-glider construction from beginning to end, with subtitles ...
... running inside Golly, but that's a free download, and the Lua script version doesn't need any extra Python installation or configuration or anything.So if I don't get too much "Nah don't do that" feedback here, I might try putting up a Show HN post for the new super-optimized RCT15 project, once the last pieces of that get completed.