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Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion

569 points · 149 comments · skepticalgenius

  1. phoyd · · focus · HN ↗
    Torrents should really be the preferred method for distributing AI model weights. Why rely on a single point of failure like Hugging Face? BitTorrent was made for exactly this.
    1. CodesInChaos · · focus · HN ↗
      In my experience public torrents often die as they grow older. It doesn't help that BitTorrent V1 makes long term seeding annoying, and BitTorrent V2 is almost never used.
      1. ranger_danger · · focus · HN ↗
        I always wondered why v2 is never used... you can even search for files by their individual hash with it.
        1. mitxela · · focus · HN ↗
          Because history is path-dependent, as engineers keep learning over and over again. It doesn't matter whether Plan9 is theoretically superior to Linux - we're all on Linux and nobody's porting all the apps over.
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