dbreunig/nesformer

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

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How fast dbreunig/nesformer is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

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Oct 29 – Nov 6, 2026

Stars +252 in 9 days

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Forks +9 in 9 days

Merged PRs 0 in 9 days

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Stars, forks, merged pull requests and Trendshift Trending rank, by day
Day	Stars gained	Forks gained
Thu, Oct 29, 2026	+0	+0
Fri, Oct 30, 2026	+106	+6
Sat, Oct 31, 2026	+100	+2
Sun, Nov 1, 2026	+22	+0
Mon, Nov 2, 2026	+13	+1
Tue, Nov 3, 2026	+11	+0
Wed, Nov 4, 2026	+0	+0
Thu, Nov 5, 2026	+0	+0
Fri, Nov 6, 2026	+0	+0
Total	+252	+9

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Nov 21 post
- How: npm install, Vite build, open the island demo and switch camera presets. The build passed and the Golden hour, Underwater and Flotsam scenes rendered. Catch: ran on integrated Intel graphics at…
  Read full on X, posted by @CleanFix_Dev
  @CleanFix_Dev · x.com
Nov 12 posts
- 有人把一台能跑的任天堂塞进了约 1GB 的 Qwen 权重里，以后下游戏可能得改口叫下模型了。
  Read full on X, posted by @iluciddreaming
  @iluciddreaming · x.com
- 9. 💻 AI is not replacing SREs, it is deskilling them SigNoz asks what happens when AI handles 95% of incidents You stop reading logs, forming hypotheses, building mental models Then the novel outage…
  Read full on X, posted by @SinghalPratul
  @SinghalPratul · x.com
Oct 312 posts4 posts
- A developer compiled a working NES CPU directly into the weights of a 1 GB AI model. nesformer is a Qwen 3.5 model acting as a 6502 CPU. It was compiled, not trained, to run games token by token. •…
  Read full on X, posted by @WaterShowX
  @WaterShowX · x.com
- downloaded the nintendo-in-qwen weights. the zip is 3.3 MB, unpacked it's a 933 MB checkpoint. 466.6M params, only 9.3M are nonzero. 98% zeros. nobody trained it, a compiler computed every weight.…
  Read full on X, posted by @daniiie7
  @daniiie7 · x.com
- someone compiled an nes cpu into the weights of a stock qwen3.5 model. nobody trained it, a compiler computed every weight. the model predicts the cpu's execution log one token at a time and super…
  Read full on X, posted by @lenny_enderle
  @lenny_enderle · x.com
- 2 KB of RAM. The CPU is the weights. Drew Breunig shipped nesformer on Oct 30. The NES 6502, its 2 KB of work RAM, and the cartridge ROM sit inside a stock Qwen3.5 checkpoint. A compiler computed…
  Read full on X, posted by @Sidrisi786
  @Sidrisi786 · x.com
Oct 303 posts
- nesformer runs an NES CPU on the standard Qwen3.5 architecture, with weights written by a compiler. The model predicts the CPU's execution log token by token, and its traces match a reference CPU…
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- An NES CPU has been compiled into the weights of a Qwen 3.5 model -
  Read full on X, posted by @zmeyc
  @zmeyc · x.com
- An NES CPU, RAM and game ROM compiled into Qwen3.5-style weights. No training. The host handles graphics and controls. It's 150–290× slower than a real NES. Not a better emulator. A proof that model…
  Read full on X, posted by @fernandoabishai
  @fernandoabishai · x.com

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