Wake up! 16b

366 points by MaximilianEmel 17 hours ago on hackernews | 25 comments

Discussion (209 points, 6 days ago, 34 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173962

Definitely thought this was a 16b parameter llm, not a 16 byte demo.

: msikora | 16 hours ago
Same! This is way cooler tho!

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)

sneak | 16 hours ago

This is absolutely obscene. I am floored. Sweet hack.

hei-lima | 15 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.

electroglyph | 13 hours ago

i'll upvote this each time it's submitted

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 | 11 hours ago
Thank you for that. Refreshing! :)

namanyayg | 11 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 ♥

__del__ | 10 hours ago

i can barely accept this is possible

immanuwell | 9 hours ago

love the sign "This text is handwritten" at the bottom, that's awesome

coffeeking001 | 8 hours ago

But big model is really better

sph | 7 hours ago

I did NOT expect this 16 bytes demo to also have sound! What an outstanding piece of art.

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 | 6 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:)

smokel | 5 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 | 4 hours ago
2^128 is still a huuuuuge space.

torben-friis | 3 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.

Dwedit | 3 hours ago

Did not work on PCEM for some reason.

nzhumasseiit | 3 hours ago

that's crazy. level to which i'm striving haha

selfsimilar | an hour 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