Hacker News with Generative AI: Ants

Why can't programmers be more like ants? Or a lesson in stigmergy (2015) (ubiquity.acm.org)
In the good old days before the Internet vanquished time and distance, software developer teams were autocratic organizations as shown in Figure 1a.
Software Development, Programming, Software Engineering, Ants, Stigmergy
57 points by yamrzou 6 days ago | 34 comments
Ants learned to farm fungi during a mass extinction (arstechnica.com)
Ants learned to work with fungi back in a world where only fungi could thrive.
Ants, Fungi, Evolution, Mass Extinction, Science
221 points by LinuxBender 106 days ago | 63 comments
The Simple Algorithm That Ants Use to Build Bridges (2018) (quantamagazine.org)
Nature, Ants, Algorithms, Biology
120 points by silverkite 147 days ago | 37 comments
Wing-slapping: A defensive behavior by honey bees against ants (wiley.com)
Honey Bees, Ants, Defensive Behavior, Animal Behavior, Biology
43 points by rntn 183 days ago | 10 comments
Ants can carry out life-saving amputations on injured nest mates, study shows (theguardian.com)
Ants, Biology, Animal Behavior, Science, Research
216 points by hackernj 200 days ago | 67 comments