Show HN: URL Snake

Post by kevinwang » Mon, Jan 09, 2023, 5:48 PM UTC

lbatchelor wrote: post #5

realYitzi wrote: post #3

And ChatGPT can tell that it's a game of Snake from the URL. https://www.tiktok.com/@y.i.t.z.i/video/7186055378977803521 "When decoded, the script appears to be a Snake game implemented using JavaScript and the HTML5 canvas element. The script creates an HTML page with a canvas element and adds event listeners for arrow keys and space bar to control the game."

Wow, that's actually impressive. Any idea how chat gpt would know that? Surely it's not making the request for it and surely it's not actually decoding any base64 right?

Post by danielgjackson » Mon, Jan 09, 2023, 6:40 PM UTC

lbatchelor wrote: post #27

danielgjackson wrote: post #25

Nice! I made a 250-byte Snake game (265 as a URL) a few years ago after spending far too long code-golfing it: https://danielgjackson.github.io/tinyjs#snake ...and even a 224 byte version (240 as a URL), but with a few too many sacrifices.

You are on a completely different level. Wow. I am going to spend absolutely too long tomorrow trying to work out how on earth you've done that. Cheers!

Post by defactoPun » Tue, Jan 10, 2023, 12:47 PM UTC

nathell wrote: post #18

My initial interpretation of the title was something that _displays_ the game inside the URL, using Unicode block characters.