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New Hashwar trailer dropped:
https://youtu.be/iLZ7JotIVwo?si=_6cDnEvGToFjzCPP

I'm gonna score some decomissioned bitcoin miners and put your puny FPGA rig in the dust!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/commen ... operation/

49 million non-repeating generations on the 32x32 torus ... I am in AWE!!!

She's a real beauty, isn't she? 12 million unique steps...

Vort wrote: October 2nd, 2026, 11:44 am Looks like "INCLUDE AGAR" switch in LONGEVITY_CHALLENGE needs rethinking.

I am more than happy to adjust that switch if and when we discover further classes of patterns!

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Congratulations to Phnx - for constructing patterns with unique generational counts substantially above the Agars. The chart above shows the currently longest-running Agar, Gentle Hypergiant, while pure_form and las_meninas have raised the longevity bar substantially ...

Gustone wrote: September 10th, 2026, 12:53 pm I wish that the forum rules weren't this, or weren't enforced, or this happened on a different forum. This was entertaining to follow

It was entertaining, which is why I gently tried to coax him into venturing onto reddit...

Hello there,

I made something somewhat interesting :)

https://youtu.be/tOiDHcOxTQE


I think someone with domain knowledge should take a look at this. Seriously. I am lacking the expertise to accurately gauge the importance of those constructs for the CA/GOL research community - but I am ...

Someone needs to break Bobinou's and Phnx's dominance in HASHWAR!

pff the new rule set has us sweating as well. its hard to find extraordinary boards!
which is a good thing... :D


Hehe... that's what you get when you apply a little bit of Game Theory to spice things up.

Although I have to ...

Well... since then, I have now gotten access to a 5070...


Noice! Wanna put it to good use? I think Vort has written a good script that utilizes GPU parallelization - with that hardware you'd be more than competitive in Hashwar. Give it a try! We are currently playing weight class 700 (16x16 ...

Bobinou's mining/hashing rig to find optimally dense Conway Glyphs for Hashwar / Gridwar. This is what SERIOUS compute looks like!

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Hashwar Series 700, beginning on 20th September, will be played on the updated Adversarial Conway algorithm, i.e. version 2.0. The updated algorithm contains the following adjustments to the core game mechanic:

■ SELECTION OF GLYPHS FOR 'HASHWAR'

Users must now explicitly flag ...

Here's the CGoL screensaver I use right now. There may be a way to turn this into a video.


I feel like having a screensaver constantly updating in the background would be distracting. The way I think this could best be dealt with is by slowly fading in the next generation over the course of ...

hotdogPi wrote: September 7th, 2026, 10:03 am I don't remember whose videos they were. One of them was in French.

Definitely not me, then! But given the Frenchs' history and the generations of sublime mathematicians they brought forth (they and the Russians, gotta hand it to them...), I can only imagine that those must be very good videos.

While I haven't watched them myself, I know we've gotten a few influxes of new members from YouTube videos over the years. Keep doing it!


Are you implying that I might be responsible for this? :shock: I'd feel flattered, mind you - but I don't think any of my work as gotten enough reach to be ...

Hello, fellow Game of Life enthusiasts!

Some of you may know that I take a rather ... how to put this delicately? ... "playful" approach to Game of Life, so I'm not necessarily a hardcore researcher into the mathematical side of things here.

Regardless, as a side effect of me fooling around with ...

(by the way, some time ago I made compression related competition [hosted on GitHub], as a result - no one except for me was interested in it. It is nice to see people who are still interested in this topic)


Vort, this is a fantastic idea and I am saddened that so few people took an interest ...

If you could give us a couple of examples across a variety of patterns (sparsely/densely populated, containing a lot of repeat patterns, random soups) and compare your optimization with existing RLE, that would surely help to sell this!

TONIGHT: Grand Finale of HASHWAR Week 34 *** LIVE ***

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Tonight's weekly finale will be cast live on our dedicated channel ■ https://www.youtube.com/@lifehashes

*** 23:00h CEST *** 21:00h UTC *** 5:00 PM EDT *** 4:00 PM CDT *** 2:00 PM PDT ***

Get the current stats for Glyph and ...

Bracket Draw of the 16 contestants for tonight's weekly Grand Finale:
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Congratulations specifically to unname4798 ("BLINKER HAVEN") and SecondTypist ("NAME KEPT PG-13") which scored 44,559 and 53,697 points in the Group Phase, respectively.

Follow along the weekly stats ...

Update on the current state of the affairs:

The currently longest-lived known pattern on the torus is "it_took_soooooooooooo_long_help" (32x32), submitted by Phnx and which runs for 9,786 unique generations (no configuration previously held). This is remarkable for two reasons:

1. Given the ...

Gentlepeople and GOL enthusiasts,

I have updated the Glyph Registry https://lifehashes.net/login/registry.php to make filtering by Grid Size possible:
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With the introduction of the Sparse-Dense Challenge (https://lifehashes.net/login/sparse-dense-challenge.php) that ...

I discovered this pattern in February 2026 but didn't realize what I had in hand (I was just puzzled that on the 16x16 torus, this pattern gives humongous non-repeating generational counts, far higher than previous patterns evolved from soups):


x = 16, y = 16, rule = B3/S23:T16,16
bobo12b$o2bo12b ...

Dear moderators,

I humbly request my newly created LifeWiki account, Hash0 , to be added to the trusted accounts.

I would like to add the following pattern that I discovered in February 2026 and which was subsequently identified to be a previously unknown Agar of periodicity 314 by forum user ...

Line-Up for Series 34 confirmed:
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Who do you think will win this week?

See the live-streamed drawing (including fetching of the latest Randomness Beacon Pulse issued by the U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology to ensure fairness) here: ■ https://youtube ...