Wake up! 16b

(hellmood.111mb.de)

334 points | by MaximilianEmel 15 hours ago

20 comments

  • tedggh 9 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 9 hours ago
      Thank you for that. Refreshing! :)
  • gnabgib 14 hours ago
    Discussion (209 points, 6 days ago, 34 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173962
  • namanyayg 9 hours ago
    One of the linked demos, "rainbow surf", got me hypnotized. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKLhH_ANwIc
    • HellMood 4 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 ♥
  • 3form 14 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)

  • hei-lima 13 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 9 hours ago
      If this was made in Electron it would probably be a 300MB download and around 1GB of RAM.
  • kennywinker 14 hours ago
    Definitely thought this was a 16b parameter llm, not a 16 byte demo.
    • msikora 13 hours ago
      Same! This is way cooler tho!
  • torben-friis 1 hour 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.
  • smokel 2 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 2 hours ago
      2^128 is still a huuuuuge space.
  • __del__ 8 hours ago
    i can barely accept this is possible
  • Dwedit 1 hour ago
    Did not work on PCEM for some reason.
  • mg 4 hours ago
    Makes me wonder how many bytes the shortest possible Mandelbrot implementation would need.
    • HellMood 4 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 4 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 4 hours ago
    I did NOT expect this 16 bytes demo to also have sound! What an outstanding piece of art.
  • nzhumasseiit 1 hour ago
    that's crazy. level to which i'm striving haha
  • electroglyph 11 hours ago
    i'll upvote this each time it's submitted
  • immanuwell 7 hours ago
    love the sign "This text is handwritten" at the bottom, that's awesome
  • sneak 14 hours ago
    This is absolutely obscene. I am floored. Sweet hack.
  • xuzhenpeng 12 hours ago
    [flagged]
  • vladsiu 9 hours ago
    [dead]
  • coffeeking001 6 hours ago
    But big model is really better