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heretic
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heretic

Training-free language model modification: Remove censorship, suppress slop, reduce sycophancy, and more

19Distinct people
26Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
40.4KGitHub stars
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Training-free language model modification: Remove censorship, suppress slop, reduce sycophancy, and more

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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, 10:49:33 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.

0123452025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsNov 20252025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 commentsMay 20262026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.Nov 2026*

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Nov 20252025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Dec 20252025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20262026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20262026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20262026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Apr 20262026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC303
May 20262026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC505
Jun 20262026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC404
Jul 20262026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC505
Aug 20262026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 20262026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC404
Oct 20262026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 2026 (partial)2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-12-01 00:00:00 UTC211

What Hacker News says

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razster·Nov 1, 2026Submission

Heretic 2.0 Released: Training-free language model modification

https://github.com/p-e-w/ -p-e-w- Posted this from Reddit. "Dear fellow Llamas, after almost 5 months of development, I finally have the pleasure of announcing to you the immediate availability of the biggest Heretic release ever, Heretic 2.0: https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic Heretic is the leading software for removing censorship from language models. It now boasts 37k GitHub stars and more than 8,500 models on Hugging Face, with 88 million(!!!) total model downloads. With Heretic 2.0, the project is entering a new era. Heretic is expanding from a purpose-built tool for censorship removal to a general-purpose model modification tool that can do amazing things. Besides removing censorship, it can suppress slop, reduce sycophancy, alter emotional alignment, and pretty much anything else that you can think of. Of course, censorship removal
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remains the primary and default function, and in fact works much, much better than ever before. Heretic 2.0 is the most advanced refusal suppression system ever built." -p-e-w-
17 points · Open discussion
Yes, it'll likely just result in some people standing up a more dedicated purpose community hosting site of abliterated/uncensored open weight GGUF files. In a theoretical scenario where HF bans abliterated/uncensored models I could very well see the same people who are producing those now simply moving the location they upload stuff to. To use an old analogy, it's not rocket science: https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic
In Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard

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