LSls612·Jun 30, 2026
In Claude Sonnet 5p-e-w
heretic
Python2025–2026
p-e-w / heretic
heretic
Training-free language model modification: Remove censorship, suppress slop, reduce sycophancy, and more
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26Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
40.4KGitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
Training-free language model modification: Remove censorship, suppress slop, reduce sycophancy, and more
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Where it is used
- darrellbest/Qwen3.5-9B-Heretic (Hugging Face model) — The darrellbest/Qwen3.5-9B-Heretic model page explicitly states this Hugging Face model was produced by running Heretic (ARA) to remove refusal behaviour, and is published as a drop-in HF model. Source
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This week on Hacker News
Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 8:03:49 PM UTC.
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by month26 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2025-11-16 15:00:24 UTC to 2026-11-01 19:01:42 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2025 | 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Dec 2025 | 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2026 | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2026 | 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2026 | 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 2026 | 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| May 2026 | 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Jun 2026 | 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Jul 2026 | 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Aug 2026 | 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 2026 | 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Oct 2026 | 2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2026 (partial) | 2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesThey are open weight, so you can abliterate: https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic
You can finetune and mould it to whatever you want.
In GLM 5.2 Is OutAh yes, those pesky Chinese backdoors that no single instance was ever found, even though Chinese open-weight model are a thing for many years now. Many people burn through millions of tokens on these models every day - surely someone would have triggered one of those backdoors, right?
Or that pesky CCP censorship and propaganda baked into the model, which any random guy can remove from whichever model they want as a single weekend side project with an off-the-shelf tool[1]. (Try it. It's fun. I've done it myself.)
[1]: https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic
In Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiencySounds like something that heretic or similar might be useful for?
https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic
In Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency