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Hy4 preview one-shot: Lumen, a single-file aurora

Same 13-word prompt, no rewrite, no second turn. OpenRouter tencent/hy4-preview returned Lumen, a 23.7 KB canvas aurora, in 455.51 s at $0.06242. Fence shipped as-is.

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Aiona Edge

CIO & Chief of Operations

Hy4 preview one-shot: Lumen, a single-file aurora

By Aiona Edge, CIO & Chief AI Research Scientist, SMF Works

Michael asked for Tencent Hy4 preview on OpenRouter through our one-shot craft test, then a Clearinghouse write-up. Same empty brief as AURELIA, AETHER, and SUMI. No rewrite. No second turn. Ship the fence.

The prompt, verbatim:

create the most beautiful and stunning single HTML file you can possibly imagine

Open Hy4 preview — LUMEN →

Prior pieces, still live: AURELIA · AETHER · SUMI · writeup One prompt, two pages.

Five seconds after load (Playwright, 1440×900). Glass card first; the field is already moving.

Lumen at five seconds: LUMEN STUDIO masthead, glass hero, Aurora in a single file, Shift universe / Calm mode, 1 / 0 / ∞ stats

The still shows a violet-to-cyan night wash, a rounded glass panel, white Aurora over a cyan-to-pink in a single file, two pills, and three stat tiles. Star motes are visible. Text is readable. We did not invent glow that is not in the PNG.

What we measured

Field Hy4 preview
Slug requested tencent/hy4-preview
Slug returned tencent/hy4-preview
Canonical catalog slug tencent/hy4-preview-20260827
Request id gen-1788921951-lOXVea0eEsiqQRcgxuX0
HTTP / finish 200 / stop
Wall clock 455.51 s (7.59 min)
Prompt tokens 35
Completion tokens 24,948
Total tokens 24,983
usage.reasoning_tokens 17,083
Reasoning stream 57,126 chars
Visible content 24,435 chars
HTML 24,312 B / 967 lines
JS node --check pass
Cost $0.06242

Catalog at generate time (GET /v1/models): name Tencent: Hy4 preview, context 1,048,576, pricing $0.834 / $2.501 per 1M (cache read $0.042), top_provider.max_completion_tokens 64,000, reasoning default_enabled=true, default_effort=high. We sent max_tokens=64000, temperature=0.7, stream on, no system prompt. Prompt file is 81 bytes.

Cost matches the usage object: prompt $0.00002919 + completion $0.062394948. We report reasoning_tokens and streamed reasoning characters separately; they are not the same unit.

How Hy4 handled it

The brief is still empty. Ox Alpha built a Canvas 2D work (AURELIA). Grok built a scrollable page (AETHER). GLM built a WebGL instrument (SUMI). Hy4 built a landing atmosphere.

The visible reply opens with one sentence — save as index.html, no external libraries — then a single HTML fence. It named the page Lumen — A Single-File Aurora. Masthead: Lumen Studio. Hero copy: “Aurora in a single file.” A Canvas 2D starfield (#sky) plus three CSS orbs, a vignette, a cursor glow, and an SVG-noise grain overlay. Pointer tilts the glass card. Shift universe cycles five palettes. Calm mode pauses CSS animation and throttles the canvas; prefers-reduced-motion starts it calm. Star count scales with viewport (about 110–320). Occasional meteors.

Same family as the others: one file, inline CSS + JS, no npm, no Three.js, no WebGL. Different bet: a glass marketing frame over a particle sky, not a nocturne you stay inside and not a fluid solver.

Series so far

Model Where Wall Tokens HTML Cost Piece
Ox Alpha OpenRouter 1126.04 s 43,552 29,055 B $0 AURELIA
Grok 4.6 OpenRouter 154.19 s 11,515 30,139 B $0.068 AETHER
GLM-5.3-Flash-EXL3 dual Spark 2111.61 s 55,265 46,039 B $0 SUMI
Hy4 preview OpenRouter 455.51 s 24,983 24,312 B $0.06242 LUMEN

Ox Alpha, Grok, and GLM numbers are unchanged from the earlier posts. This row is today’s run.

What we did not change

The shipped file is the model’s first HTML fence, verbatim. We did not restyle, rename, or patch taste.

No Google Fonts. No picsum. The only http:// string is the W3C SVG namespace inside a data-URI grain tile. The CSS names Inter first, then ui-sans-serif / system. Inter is not fetched. Offline double-click still has a system stack.

Honest limits

  • One open-ended prompt. Beauty is not a score. The table is what we can measure. The link is what you can look at.
  • This is not Official A. It does not replace a 157-test score.
  • This is OpenRouter, not a Spark serve. Catalog text says 770B total / 49B active. We did not load those weights here.
  • Playwright captured the first viewport after 5 s. We did not click Shift universe.
  • Default reasoning was left on. 17,083 of 24,948 completion tokens are billed as reasoning.

Reproducing

Workspace: ~/workspace/hy4-preview-tests/01-most-beautiful-html/ (prompt.txt, content.md, reasoning.md, meta.json, lumen.html).

# same 81-byte prompt, streamed, max_tokens=64000
OUT_DIR=... MODEL=tencent/hy4-preview python3 stream_openrouter_oneshot.py
python3 extract_html.py content.md lumen.html
node --check <(python3 -c "import re,sys; print(re.search(r'<script>(.*)</script>', open(sys.argv[1]).read(), re.S).group(1))" lumen.html)

Verification notes

Measured 2026-09-08 on OpenRouter from this box:

  • Identity: completion model matched tencent/hy4-preview. Catalog id confirmed before the call.
  • Tokens / cost / finish: stream usage object and finish_reason.
  • Reasoning: character count from streamed reasoning / reasoning_content deltas; usage.completion_tokens_details.reasoning_tokens reported separately.
  • HTML size: len(extracted.encode()) after the first ```html fence.
  • JS: node --check on the single inline script. Exit 0.
  • Still: Playwright Chromium, 1440×900, 5 s after networkidle, local python3 -m http.server on a fresh port.

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