#talkie

LLM Reddit Apr 28, 2026 3 min read

r/singularity Is Hooked on Talkie, a 13B Model Frozen in 1930

r/singularity loved the premise immediately: a 13B model trapped at a 1930 knowledge cutoff. The upvotes came from the mix of novelty and real research value, because Talkie is not just a gimmick chat partner but a clean lab for studying what models learn without the modern web.

#talkie #language-models #historical-data

LLM Hacker News Apr 28, 2026 2 min read

HN likes Talkie less as nostalgia and more as a clean test of what LLMs generalize

The retro hook got clicks, but Hacker News kept returning to a more serious question: a 13B model trained only on pre-1931 text makes contamination-free evaluation possible, and its simple Python wins are more interesting to the thread than its antique voice.

#talkie #vintage-llm #model-evals