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Wake up! 16b (hellmood.111mb.de)
tedggh 12 hours ago [-]
This sent me on a one hour long rabbit hole that ended with two guys building a Sierpinski triangle with recursive PowerPoint presentations

https://youtu.be/b-Fa6HtvGtQ?si=LpQszgA9_K-m3V3-

wuschel 12 hours ago [-]
Thank you for that. Refreshing! :)
gnabgib 17 hours ago [-]
Discussion (209 points, 6 days ago, 34 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173962
3form 17 hours ago [-]
Some other time, I really thought that a 32 byte demo I saw is the limit of how small the binary can get and still look good.

That other demo didn't even have sound.

This is hell of a good work. A masterpiece to retire after. (or more realistically, chase it on other architectures)

namanyayg 12 hours ago [-]
One of the linked demos, "rainbow surf", got me hypnotized. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKLhH_ANwIc
HellMood 7 hours ago [-]
Author of "wake up" here. Yes, that one reactivated me again. We thought (as size coding community) that we found every cellular automaton trick years ago, but then Plex came around and showed us otherwise ♥
hei-lima 16 hours ago [-]
I'm really impressed. Those are the things that made me love programming and computing. It's all so beautiful, it's TRULY art. It's a shame that in the industry we don't usually have the opportunities to make something like that, with AIs and all that...
jonhohle 12 hours ago [-]
If this was made in Electron it would probably be a 300MB download and around 1GB of RAM.
kennywinker 17 hours ago [-]
Definitely thought this was a 16b parameter llm, not a 16 byte demo.
msikora 16 hours ago [-]
Same! This is way cooler tho!
__del__ 11 hours ago [-]
i can barely accept this is possible
smokel 6 hours ago [-]
There are only 2^128 of such demos. How much of those are valid DOS programs? If we narrow it down to ones that generate both video and sound, I guess there are much less, which should motivate more people to try and find one :)
nojvek 5 hours ago [-]
2^128 is still a huuuuuge space.
torben-friis 4 hours ago [-]
I swear watching this kind of projects occasionally is the only thing keeping me from dropping tech and going to work as a mailman or something.
mg 7 hours ago [-]
Makes me wonder how many bytes the shortest possible Mandelbrot implementation would need.
HellMood 7 hours ago [-]
Author of "wakeup" here. You would would need between 32 and 64 bytes. I have something that almost looks like one in 32 but it's not published yet ;)
HellMood 7 hours ago [-]
At the same event I released "Broccolori", a 32 Byte fractal for old-school PCs.

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=106205

Related to the Dragon Fractal, with a twist:)

sph 7 hours ago [-]
I did NOT expect this 16 bytes demo to also have sound! What an outstanding piece of art.
Dwedit 4 hours ago [-]
Did not work on PCEM for some reason.
16 hours ago [-]
selfsimilar 2 hours ago [-]
16 bytes equals immediate “black magic” and “it’s a witch”. I get it in the abstract - generative art and CAs and fractals have infinite depth. But this is madness. I love it so much
electroglyph 14 hours ago [-]
i'll upvote this each time it's submitted
nzhumasseiit 4 hours ago [-]
that's crazy. level to which i'm striving haha
immanuwell 10 hours ago [-]
love the sign "This text is handwritten" at the bottom, that's awesome
sneak 17 hours ago [-]
This is absolutely obscene. I am floored. Sweet hack.
xuzhenpeng 15 hours ago [-]
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vladsiu 12 hours ago [-]
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coffeeking001 9 hours ago [-]
But big model is really better
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