Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion

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Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion

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skepticalgenius

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hackernews

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HN points 277　HN 留言 104

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https://pirateface.co/

摘要原文

Turn AI into torrents that live forever. Open models - LLMs, image, audio, datasets - as 🧲 magnet links that can never be taken down. No single owner or point of failure. pirateface.co/ Enter your handle above Type your handle above to check availability. Live ⚑ @ops-blackfuel claimed a handle · recent ✓ @ops-blackfuel verified · recent # Alibaba-NLP/gte-reranker-modernbert-base · recent ⚑ @pirateonjahfyah claimed a handle · recent ✓ @pirateonjahfyah verified · recent # Alibaba-NLP/gte-large-en-v1.5 · recent # Arrexel/pattern-diffusion · recent # calcuis/illustrious · recent ⚑ @ca claimed a handle · recent # ibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2 · recent # tencent/WeVisDoc-2B · recent # Mapika/decider-2b · recent ⚑ @ops-blackfuel claimed a handle · recent ✓ @ops-blackfuel verified · recent # Alibaba-NLP/gte-reranker-modernbert-base · recent ⚑ @pirateonjahfyah claimed a handle · recent ✓ @pirateonjahfyah verified · recent # Alibaba-NLP/gte-large-en-v1.5 · recent # Arrexel/pattern-diffusion · recent # calcuis/illustrious · recent ⚑ @ca claimed a handle · recent # ibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2 · recent # tencent/WeVisDoc-2B · recent # Mapika/decider-2b · recent See all → Trending Models Trending Apache-2.0 & MIT models, synced live from Hugging Face - each becoming a checksum-verified torrent. prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf updated 3d ago 🧲 Magnet text-generation 54 GB 🌱 2 1.9M sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2 updated today 🧲 Magnet sentence-similarity 91 MB 🌱 10 252M convaiinnovations/laya updated yesterday 🧲 Magnet text-classification 843 MB 🌱 2 0 deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash updated 10d ago 🧲 Magnet image-text-to-text 765 GB 🌱 9 497k XingChen-AGI/Xing4.0-29B-A4B updated 2d ago 🧲 Magnet text-generation 62 GB 🌱 1 13k Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B updated 37d ago 🧲 Magnet image-text-to-text 56 GB 🌱 6 7.3M ISTA-DASLab/Qwen3.8-27B-GSQ-RCO-GGUF updated 18d ago 🧲 Magnet image-text-to-text 12 GB 🌱 3 1.2M harshatheg/Qwen-2.5-1B-RLCD updated 5d ago 🧲 Magnet text-generation - Ready 0 baidu/Unlimited-OCR updated today 🧲 Magnet image-text-to-text 6.7 GB 🌱 6 2.2M Browse 669k+ eligible models → The permanence layer for sovereign AI. Pirate Face is decentralized infrastructure for sovereign AI. Every open model is mirrored from Hugging Face as a torrent, held peer-to-peer instead of by a single company. Why models should never die → Censorship-resistant Every model is a torrent that also downloads straight from Hugging Face. The day it's gone, the swarm keeps it alive - there's no single host to shut down. huggingface.co/model removed fallback ↓ pirateface.co/model 1,240 seeding Checksum-verified Every file carries its official Hugging Face SHA-256 - so you verify every byte. Download it anywhere and the hash still has to match: the real weights, never a tampered copy. model-00001.safetensors 6.7 GB SHA-256 9f86d0 81884c7d659a2feaa0c55ad015a3bf4f1b2b0b822cd15d6c15b0f00a08 ✓ Matches Hugging Face - bit-for-bit, untampered Drop-in API soon Point your existing pipeline at Pirate Face - same paths, same API, just a different endpoint. Zero code changes. pirateface - zsh # same pipeline - one env var $ export HF_ENDPOINT = https://pirateface.co $ python train.py ✓ pulling meta-llama/Llama-4 from the swarm Claim your handle Reserve pirateface.co/yourname for your public profile. Verify your matching Hugging Face identity to earn the Verified creator badge and help prevent impersonation. Join the community for upcoming account benefits, including free compute credits and exclusive model releases. Create account You can browse, download and seed without an account. zai-org ✓ verified pirateface.co/zai-org Follow Z.ai · Zhipu AI - GLM foundation models, Beijing LLM zai-org/GLM-5.2 🌱 1,800 LLM zai-org/GLM-4-9B 🌱 1,240 VIS zai-org/CogVideoX-5B 🌱 760 FAQ What is Pirate Face? A decentralized, peer-to-peer layer for sovereign AI. Open models from Hugging Face become checksum-verified torrents, held by a global swarm so they survive any single host taking them down. The goal is permanence for open-source AI. Do I need an account to use Pirate Face? No. You can browse, download, and seed without an account. Claiming is optional. A public claim reserves your Pirate Face handle and helps the network spread. Only your first eligible handle earns welcome points. Hugging Face creator claims require verification. To receive the Verified creator badge for a current Hugging Face username or organization, you must verify the matching Hugging Face account. Until then, the handle is only reserved and does not prove identity. Direct publishing is planned. Accounts will eventually support publishing and managing models directly on Pirate Face, without first uploading them to Hugging Face. That is not live yet. Today, submitting a model requires a Hugging Face account and the model must already be on Hugging Face. Accounts also support upcoming community benefits. See account benefits . Why create a Pirate Face account? An account gives you a place to manage your claimed handles and track your contributions. Claiming reserves a public handle; verifying the matching Hugging Face identity adds the creator badge and helps prevent impersonation. Pirate Face is preparing community benefits for account holders, including free compute credits and exclusive model releases . You can browse, download and seed without an account. Why use Hugging Face verification if the goal is independence from centralized hosting? Hugging Face verification confirms that someone claiming a creator’s handle controls the matching HF account or organization. It helps prevent impersonation and preserves attribution as models spread beyond their original host. You don’t need verification, or an account, to browse, download or seed. Pirate Face’s short-term goal is for model availability to outlive any single hosting platform. Today, parts of Pirate Face depend on Hugging Face and its community. Pirate Face is working to allow direct model publishing soon, without first uploading to HF. Does my Pirate Face handle have to match my Hugging Face username? No. You can reserve an available name, but the verified badge requires a matching Hugging Face identity. For example, a Hugging Face account named john123 can verify john123 , not john . You can still reserve john , but it stays unverified. The matching Hugging Face owner could reclaim that handle without deleting your Pirate Face account. Manage your connected accounts and reserved handles in Account . Could someone impersonate a creator here? Both are protected: The weights can't be faked - every file is checksum-verified against Hugging Face's official SHA-256. The handle - anyone can reserve a name (it shows reserved , no Verified creator ), but only proving the matching Hugging Face identity earns the Verified creator . A squatter can't lock you out: the real owner reclaims a reserved name by verifying. What does “checksum-verified” mean? Every weight file carries its official Hugging Face SHA-256 - a unique fingerprint of the exact bytes. Download it from anywhere and the hash still has to match, so you always know it's the real weights, never a tampered copy. It's the #1 fear with mirrored models, so it's a first-class feature here. How do downloads work, and what if Hugging Face removes a model? Every model is a magnet link (a torrent) with a Hugging Face web-seed built in - so it works even with zero peers. While it's on Hugging Face: you pull the bytes straight from HF - same weights, checksum-verified, same speed. The day HF removes it: the web-seed dies and the download falls back to the peer-to-peer swarm. We mark it Rescued - still reachable, kept alive by whoever's seeding. That fallback is the whole point: the same bytes as downloading from Hugging Face directly, but with no single point of failure (and the swarm can serve far-from-HF regions faster). 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