# kerlenton/bootgpt

> 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.

- Magnitude: 3.2 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 17 total · Not enough measurements today
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Other · Language: Python · License: MIT · Created: 2026-10-30 · Last push: 2026-10-31
- GitHub: https://github.com/kerlenton/bootgpt · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/kerlenton/bootgpt

## 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.

## Why it’s here

- There are not enough fresh counter measurements for today's UTC day. The gain is unknown.
- The repository is 2 days old and already has 17 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” — 46 points, 11 h ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 0
- Issues and pull requests: 0
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 11 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1

## Stars per day, last 3 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-30 … 2026-11-01: 0, 17, None

## Magnitude by day, last 2 days

10-31 2.0, 11-01 3.2

## Hacker News

- Show HN: A language model that lives in a boot sector — 46 points, 0 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315782

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-01 00:12 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.