kerlenton/bootgpt
- Total stars
- 16
- Today
- +8since 20:35 UTC
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About the project
A neural network that lives entirely in a PC boot sector: the 510-byte MBR loads int8 weights from the next 23 sectors and runs a small char-level model in 16-bit real mode on a 386, generating fake Linux boot logs instead of an OS.
Useful for
- Boot the image in QEMU to watch a tiny neural net hallucinate a dmesg log.
- Train your own char-level model with train.py and run it in a boot sector via boot.asm.
- Study 16-bit real-mode assembly inference on BIOS interrupts int 13h and int 10h.
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Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 31, 2026, 23:30 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-31 (UTC), 20:35–23:25: 8 → 16 stars (+8). This is the change over that interval.
- The repository is 1 day old and already has 16 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: A language model that lives in a boot sector” — 43 points, 10 h ago.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
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Daily measurements · UTC
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Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 0 · October 30, 2026. Days with data: 1.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: October 31, 2026, 23:30 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
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Numbers
- Total stars
- 16
- Today
- +8 stars measured 2026-10-31, 20:35–23:25 UTC
- Forks
- 0
- Issues and pull requests
- 0
- Watchers
- 0
- Language
- Python
- License
- MIT
- Created
- October 30, 2026
- Last push
- October 31, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- Show HN: A language model that lives in a boot sector43 points, October 31, 2026
Spotted in
- October 31, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
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