This sent me on a one hour long rabbit hole that ended with two guys building a Sierpinski triangle with recursive PowerPoint presentations<p><a href="https://youtu.be/b-Fa6HtvGtQ?si=LpQszgA9_K-m3V3-" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/b-Fa6HtvGtQ?si=LpQszgA9_K-m3V3-</a>
Discussion (209 points, 6 days ago, 34 comments) <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173962">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173962</a>
One of the linked demos, "rainbow surf", got me hypnotized. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKLhH_ANwIc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKLhH_ANwIc</a>
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 ♥
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.<p>That other demo didn't even have sound.<p>This is hell of a good work. A masterpiece to retire after. (or more realistically, chase it on other architectures)
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...
Definitely thought this was a 16b parameter llm, not a 16 byte demo.
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.
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 :)
i can barely accept this is possible
Makes me wonder how many bytes the shortest possible Mandelbrot implementation would need.
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 ;)
At the same event I released "Broccolori", a 32 Byte fractal for old-school PCs.<p><a href="https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=106205" rel="nofollow">https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=106205</a><p>Related to the Dragon Fractal, with a twist:)
I did NOT expect this 16 bytes demo to also have sound! What an outstanding piece of art.
Did not work on PCEM for some reason.
that's crazy. level to which i'm striving haha
i'll upvote this each time it's submitted
love the sign "This text is handwritten" at the bottom, that's awesome
This is absolutely obscene. I am floored. Sweet hack.
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But big model is really better