Wake up! 16b(hellmood.111mb.de)
378 points by MaximilianEmel 19 hours ago | 22 comments
s3graham 0 minutes ago
Super cool!

I'm not sure if they did a writeup for m8trix (a predecessor) but I tried dissecting it around when it came out (2014): https://scot.tg/2014/05/31/amazing-code-density/

tedggh 14 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-

soulofmischief 3 minutes ago
Matt Parker and Steve Mould are two of the best STEM educators on YouTube. They are both witty and experimental. Parker is a straight maths kind of guy but Mould goes all over the place and really scratches that experimental/DIY itch.

If you enjoy this video, I highly recommend checking out more of their channels.

https://www.youtube.com/@standupmaths

https://www.youtube.com/@SteveMould

wuschel 13 hours ago
Thank you for that. Refreshing! :)
gnabgib 19 hours ago
Discussion (209 points, 6 days ago, 34 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173962
3form 18 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 13 hours ago
One of the linked demos, "rainbow surf", got me hypnotized. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKLhH_ANwIc
HellMood 9 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 ♥
kennywinker 18 hours ago
Definitely thought this was a 16b parameter llm, not a 16 byte demo.
msikora 18 hours ago
Same! This is way cooler tho!
hei-lima 17 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 14 hours ago
If this was made in Electron it would probably be a 300MB download and around 1GB of RAM.
torben-friis 5 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.
__del__ 12 hours ago
i can barely accept this is possible
smokel 7 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 6 hours ago
2^128 is still a huuuuuge space.
mg 9 hours ago
Makes me wonder how many bytes the shortest possible Mandelbrot implementation would need.
HellMood 9 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 8 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 9 hours ago
I did NOT expect this 16 bytes demo to also have sound! What an outstanding piece of art.
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Dwedit 5 hours ago
Did not work on PCEM for some reason.
electroglyph 15 hours ago
i'll upvote this each time it's submitted
selfsimilar 3 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
nzhumasseiit 5 hours ago
that's crazy. level to which i'm striving haha
immanuwell 11 hours ago
love the sign "This text is handwritten" at the bottom, that's awesome
sneak 18 hours ago
This is absolutely obscene. I am floored. Sweet hack.
xuzhenpeng 16 hours ago
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vladsiu 14 hours ago
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coffeeking001 10 hours ago
But big model is really better