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nesformer
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dbreunig / nesformer

nesformer

An NES CPU compiled into the weights of a stock Qwen3.5 model

2Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
296GitHub stars
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What it is

An NES CPU compiled into the weights of a stock Qwen3.5 model

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by hour3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-10-30 16:40:22 UTC to 2026-10-30 23:53:10 UTC.

012026-10-30 16:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-30 17:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsOct 30, 16:002026-10-30 17:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-30 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-10-30 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-30 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-30 19:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-30 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsOct 30, 19:002026-10-30 20:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-30 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-30 21:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-30 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-30 22:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-30 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-30 23:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 30, 23:00

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Oct 30, 16:002026-10-30 16:00:00 UTC2026-10-30 17:00:00 UTC110
Oct 30, 17:002026-10-30 17:00:00 UTC2026-10-30 18:00:00 UTC101
Oct 30, 18:002026-10-30 18:00:00 UTC2026-10-30 19:00:00 UTC000
Oct 30, 19:002026-10-30 19:00:00 UTC2026-10-30 20:00:00 UTC000
Oct 30, 20:002026-10-30 20:00:00 UTC2026-10-30 21:00:00 UTC000
Oct 30, 21:002026-10-30 21:00:00 UTC2026-10-30 22:00:00 UTC000
Oct 30, 22:002026-10-30 22:00:00 UTC2026-10-30 23:00:00 UTC000
Oct 30, 23:002026-10-30 23:00:00 UTC2026-10-31 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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if you look at https://github.com/dbreunig/nesformer It's obvious a LLM can do anything a computer can do. As an answer to "Why would LLMs exhibit sentience?" It is because that would mean that no algorithm could exhibit sentience, claiming that would require some causal action that cannot be performed by an algorithm to create sentience. Some people like to point to quantum effects, but that would require the cause of sentience to be pure randomness. That seems even less plausible. Absent of any evidence that human brains are doing something that no algorithm could do, it would be reasonable to assume that sentience could be algorithmically obtained.
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