Sometimes I am struck by the weirdness of our dystopian present.

Great piece from @frimelle.bsky.social and @giadapistilli.com Our use of AI is still in the early stages and none of what is to come is preordained. We can paint a different future for ourselves that is better than the dreary present of Web 2.0.

Beautiful post from @yewjin.bsky.social "Success is a lousy navigation system for the second half of life." Potentially a lousy system for any half of your life, but more pressing as time goes on.

I like this very much. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

The Hub is on 100% on Xet. 🚀 A little over a year ago, @hf.co acquired XetHub to unlock the next phase of growth in models and datasets. huggingface.co/blog/xethub-... In April, there were 1,000 Hugging Face repos on Xet. Now every repo (over 6M) on the Hub is on Xet.

Just a reminder that this is a legit status code

The rise of AI-generated workslop.

Nice breakdown by the @anthropic.com team of a few recent infra bugs that led to the worst nightmare of any engineer: "random, inconsistent degradation." Good reminder that these genies still rely on solid infrastructure, good evaluations, and constant monitoring.

Decades later and Garfield has still got it.

Anthropic is the only leading AI lab to not release a reasonable open weights model. Is notable that pretty much everyone has a touchpoint here now.

Hard not to 🙄 at this section of Zuck's vision of "Personal Superintelligence" "Personal devices like glasses that understand our context because they can see what we see, hear what we hear, and interact with us throughout the day will become our primary computing devices."

We just crossed 1 million repositories backed by Xet storage on @hf.co I celebrated by reviving the early 2000s web design aesthetics that I love so much. Here's our dashboard showing our progress converting the Hub from Git LFS to Xet (and demonstrating my questionable design sensibilities).

Perhaps the bitter lesson about all organizational design is that all you need is a garbage can of chaos.

Loved this post from @henrikkarlsson.bsky.social "There have been a series of experiences that have helped me realize more of my agency, but I think the most important one was becoming a father" 💯💯💯💯

We've moved the first 20PB from Git LFS to Xet on @hf.co without any interruptions. Now we're migrating the rest of the Hub. We got this far by focusing on the community first. Here's a deep dive on the infra making this possible and what's next: huggingface.co/blog/migrati...

A look into monitoring/observability at @hf.co Some fun tidbits in here, like how we use our NAT gateway as a cost sentinel. Cloud infra costs are no joke.

465 people. 122 languages. 58,185 annotations! FineWeb-C v1 is complete! Communities worldwide have built their own educational quality datasets, proving that we don't need to wait for big tech to support languages. Huge thanks to all who contributed! huggingface.co/blog/davanst...

"A close friend has used em-dashes since our days in college, and yet every time they include one in a text to me, I can't help but think, "Did an LLM write this?"

Further proof that cute animals are the great distractors.

More context, more problems. www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/22/h...

On using AI for personal messages: “We want to just write a prompt and have it done. And there’s something that we are losing – it’s the process. And in the process, there’s many important aspects. It is the co-construction of ourselves with our activities”

Privacy concerns are legitimate and need to be addressed, but a larger part of me is concerned about the social, cultural, and cognitive impacts of a "magic genie bot that is going to take care of the exigencies of life"

What happens when you give an LLM a high-level objective to manage a small business and an incomplete toolset to achieve its aims? It makes questionable inventory and sales decisions, loses most of its money, and has an identity crisis. Not *so* far off from how I would perform.

And so the march to the season of darkness begins.

Publishers are spending time and money on AI chatbots that nobody will use. If AI succeeds, here's why it will live in your browser and operating system - and what I think news orgs should build instead. werd.io/ai-wont-live...

It's been a bit since I took a step back and looked at our progress to migrate @hf.co from Git LFS to Xet, but every time I do it's mind boggling. A month ago there were 5,500 users/orgs on Xet with 150K repos and 4PB. Today? 🤗 700,000 users/orgs 📈 350,000 repos 🚀 15PB

Interoperability xkcd.com/3105/

If you are interested in a unified collection of common misinformation detection benchmarks, check out our recent repo @hf.co

"All of these jobs are ultimately about trust and responsibility. Not only does the task need to be done, someone needs to take responsibility for what was delivered."

Stumbled across deepwiki.com last night. Great resource for anyone trying to get up to speed on an open source repo. Does a pretty good job of explaining the xet-core codebase and Xet deduplication tech on Hugging Face deepwiki.com/huggingface/... (probably better than I have 😅)

A bit of reflection on being a new parent; mostly on my perception of time as a new father. TL;DR - I have less time 🤪 (but more purpose).

Forest bathing. A common Washington state pastime.

I've been working on cutting down my, "I'm sorry, I meant to be more clear in my last prompt" messages too. There is a price to being polite. Good breakdown by Julien Delavande, @sashamtl.bsky.social, and Régis Pierrard.

Just get the Windows box back up and running to troubleshoot some user reports about slow downloads in WSL. It'll be easy. I *won't* spend the entire morning downloading software and rebooting the machine.

Learned GCP was out by seeing my dog door monitor was broken (backed by a cloud SQL instance). How am I going to replay/track the events of her going in and out the dog door during this outage? These are the important questions.

🎉 Big update! The #InternetArchive has launched a new version of GifCities, our search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. Search better. Blink more! Check it out ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/k... 🧵

As a side-effect of the @gradio-hf.bsky.social hackathon, we may have just accidentally created the largest open source collection of MCP servers. If you are curious about what can be done with MCP you should really check them out, it’s pretty wild: huggingface.co/spaces?filte...

A philosophy to live by (also, check out those beards 🧔🧔)

"It started a few years ago when Peter was raised to the rank of department head and was careless enough to leave a portrait of himself floating around." How one man's face came to be plastered all over the Bell Labs campus (including on a watertower) during the early days of Unix development.

Awk is for kids and adults alike, just like A&W's root beer floats.

I misspelled avocado once while grocery shopping. Now I only buy avacardos.

I've seen a few posts like these recently. It's disappointing. In general, I'm a social media lurker, but I'm here because there are some great minds posting interesting things. Without forums like these, there is no good way for me to hear these voices.

New users and organizations can say goodbye to LFS on Hugging Face; Xet is now the default storage for new builders on the Hub 🚀 🚀 🚀 Just sign up for an account, create a new repo, pip install huggingface_hub and you're off! huggingface.co/changelog/xe...

Continuing to move all the LFS bytes into Xet storage on Hugging Face! Currently up to: 🤗 5,500 users and orgs with Xet access 🚀 150,000 Xet-backed models and datasets 🤯 4+ PB managed by Xet How much more to go? If the Hub's top storage users are any indication: many bytes

Qwen is now on Xet on the Hugging Face Hub 🎉 I'm a little star-struck to be honest 🤩 Qwen has 260+ model repos that are regularly among the top trending/downloaded models and we get to serve the bytes from the Hub to your computer.

Before this year, I didn't think about S3.Today, I think about it all the time. Here's a beautiful guest post from Andy Warfield on @werner.social's All Things Distributed about how one engineer (Warfield) came to understand (as much as one can) S3.

Crossed some major milestones in moving @hf.co repos from LFS to Xet: 👷 Over 2,000 builders and nearing 100 organizations with access 🚀 70,000 model and dataset repositories on Xet 🤯 1.4 petabytes managed in Xet storage

This is obvious, but if people broadly rely on a black box to give them answers that help them understand the world, whoever controls the black box controls those answers and therefore the understanding that comes from them. Openness is safety.

The Lovelace 2.0 Test of Artificial Creativity and Intelligence “tell a story in which a boy falls in love with a girl, aliens abduct the boy, and the girl saves the world with the help of a talking cat.” Change that 🐱 to a 🐶 and I'd read that story any day.