Wake up! 16b (hellmood.111mb.de)

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.

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)

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

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...

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i'll upvote this each time it's submitted

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-

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One of the linked demos, "rainbow surf", got me hypnotized. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKLhH_ANwIc

i can barely accept this is possible

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

But big model is really better

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

Makes me wonder how many bytes the shortest possible Mandelbrot implementation would need.

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 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.

Did not work on PCEM for some reason.

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

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

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/

I once made a ray tracer demo in 4K. I thought that was hard…

Really, really small generative code like this has me shouting "Witch!"

Bravo.

And cool creations like this is why we get excited about technology