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/

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

  today at 8:07 PM

  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

  today at 6:18 AM

  Thank you for that. Refreshing! :)

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

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)

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

• HellMood

  today at 11:07 AM

  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 ♥

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

• msikora

  today at 2:04 AM

  Same! This is way cooler tho!

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

  today at 6:03 AM

  If this was made in Electron it would probably be a 300MB download and around 1GB of RAM.

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.

i can barely accept this is possible

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

  today at 1:24 PM

  2^128 is still a huuuuuge space.

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

• HellMood

  today at 11:05 AM

  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

  today at 11:23 AM

  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:)

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.

i'll upvote this each time it's submitted

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

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