Today AI Trends on Reddit — 26/10/2026

Today AI Trends on Reddit — 26/10/2026

Top 8 posts across 8 AI / homelab subreddits — 26/10/2026.

• OpenAI and Anthropic blocked the reverse engineering of smart TVs spying on us (r/LocalLLaMA · 3249 pts · 504 comments)
  A Discussion post claims OpenAI and Anthropic blocked reverse engineering of smart TVs that spy on users, saying REA (Reserve Engineer Anything) was blocked by Claude one day later. The poster links an X thread and suggests it is time for users to own the weights.
• Developer uses Claude to overhaul his parents’ TV, removing ads and replacing its entire interface — 8 days later, the project has 34,800 GitHub stars and configurations for 300 TV models (r/singularity · 1322 pts · 104 comments)
  A post highlights a developer using Claude to overhaul his parents’ TV, removing ads and replacing the interface. Eight days later, the project has 34,800 GitHub stars and configurations for 300 TV models; commenters share the cleanyourtv GitHub link and welcome an end to manufacturer bloat.
• My first scene created with MiniMax H3 in ComfyUI, rendered on an NVIDIA RTX 3090 GPU. (r/StableDiffusion · 1310 pts · 103 comments)
  A user shares their first scene created with MiniMax H3 in ComfyUI, rendered on an NVIDIA RTX 3090 GPU. They say free AI video generators are catching up with paid alternatives and that testing MiniMax H3 for the first time left them impressed.
• r/opensource is banning everything AI related (r/singularity · 1080 pts · 843 comments)
  A Shitposting post says r/opensource is banning everything AI-related. Commenters criticize the policy, arguing open source is where AI could do the most good and that its ethos is freely sharing and altering code, with AI helping; one says non-English speakers were banned over AI-translation fears.
• My first scene created with MiniMax H3 in ComfyUI, rendered on an NVIDIA RTX 3090 GPU. (r/comfyui · 551 pts · 77 comments)
  A Show and Tell post shares a first scene created with MiniMax H3 in ComfyUI, rendered on an NVIDIA RTX 3090 GPU. The poster says free AI video generators are catching up with paid alternatives and that testing MiniMax H3 for the first time left them impressed.
• Zipties in ComfyUI! (r/comfyui · 487 pts · 44 comments)
  A Show and Tell post shares a ComfyUI project called Zipties, described as just for fun, and provides a GitHub repository link for comfyui-zip-ties.
• Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-33B · Hugging Face (r/LocalLLaMA · 430 pts · 96 comments)
  A post links to Nanbeige4.3-33B on Hugging Face, claiming it is stronger than Qwen3.8-27B across a range of benchmarks. It says the model also lays the foundation for an upcoming small-model distillation pipeline, such as Nanbeige4.3-3B, and possibly other sizes.
• A 4B coding model that can generate 3D scenes (r/LocalLLaMA · 380 pts · 85 comments)
  A developer shares an early 4B model for general coding and 3D scene generation, an independent fine-tune of Qwen3.5-4B. Q4_K_M and Q8_0 GGUFs are available on Hugging Face; training is still running, with updates and the training dataset promised soon.