{"slug": "show-hn-connectome-inspired-spiking-network-you-can-try-in-the-browser", "title": "Show HN: Connectome-inspired spiking network you can try in the browser", "summary": "A developer released a browser-based demo of a sparse spiking neural network that classifies hand-drawn digits using only event-driven additions, running entirely client-side via ONNX Runtime Web. The model uses 5% connection density, leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neurons, and connection masks derived from Drosophila connectome statistics, with weights and code published on Hugging Face and GitHub under the AwareLiquid account.", "body_md": "Draw a digit — a **sparse spiking neural network** (5% connection density, LIF neurons, masks from\n    *Drosophila* connectome statistics) classifies it with event-driven additions only.\n    Runs entirely in your browser via ONNX Runtime Web.\n     ·  [model](https://huggingface.co/AwareLiquid/Sparse-SNN) ·\n    [code](https://github.com/AwareLiquid/human-brain-simulation)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-connectome-inspired-spiking-network-you-can-try-in-the-browser", "canonical_source": "https://awareliquid-sparse-snn-demo.static.hf.space/index.html", "published_at": "2026-09-19 20:49:52+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-19 21:24:19.617774+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["neural-networks", "machine-learning", "ai-research", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["AwareLiquid", "ONNX Runtime Web", "Drosophila", "Hugging Face", "GitHub"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-connectome-inspired-spiking-network-you-can-try-in-the-browser", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-connectome-inspired-spiking-network-you-can-try-in-the-browser.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-connectome-inspired-spiking-network-you-can-try-in-the-browser.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-connectome-inspired-spiking-network-you-can-try-in-the-browser.jsonld"}}