THE VIDEO SHELF · demoscene 64k intros
fr-08: .the .product by farbrausch | 64k intro (2000) (720p HQ demoscene demo)
A recording of .the .product by Farbrausch, the first-place 64k intro at The Party 2000. It fits an 11-minute 3D demo with music into 64 kilobytes.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters use it as the standard example of how much a tiny program can do, in contrast to bloated modern software.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Demoscene High-Quality Videos (Annikras)
- Topic
- demoscene 64k intros
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2020
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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In year 2000 when I was 16 years old 64k fr-08 by farbrausch told me that I know nothing about programming ;) [1] [VIDEO]
pkrefta on Hacker News · 2016-06
In Source code for 4kb demoscene production “Elevated” releasedIMHO not very many 64Ks have reached the amazingness of this 11 minute one from 2000: [VIDEO] ...and for 4K, this one from 2009: [LINK]
userbinator on Hacker News · 2017-11
In Terrain rendering in fewer than 20 lines of codeI discovered #4 through him and I agree both with his summary and the paper itself --- canonical Huffman is astoundingly simple if you look at it in the right way, yet almost everyone doesn't. ryg is also a member of the Farbrausch demogroup, which …
userbinator on Hacker News · 2017-08
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