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A working Nintendo lives in 1GB of Qwen weights. I ran it and counted the nonzero ones.

A working Nintendo lives in 1GB of Qwen weights. I ran it and counted the nonzero ones. Today's Show HN is the kind of project that sounds like a joke until you read the mechanism: an NES CPU compiled into the weights of a stock Qwen3.5 model. No training. A compiler computed every weight. The mode…

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  1. 2026-10-30 23:37 · DEV Community — AI
    A working Nintendo lives in 1GB of Qwen weights. I ran it and counted the nonzero ones.

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