Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
Trending on Hacker News: Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion (367 points / 118 comments, via pirateface.co)
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The un-bannable, checksum-verified mirror for sovereign AI models.
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Open models - LLMs, image, audio, datasets - as 🧲 magnet links that can never be taken down. No single owner or point of failure.
Trending Apache-2.0 & MIT models, synced live from Hugging Face - each becoming a checksum-verified torrent.
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 🌱 4 0 deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash updated 11d ago 🧲 Magnet image-text-to-text 765 GB 🌱 11 497k XingChen-AGI/Xing4.0-29B-A4B updated 3d ago 🧲 Magnet text-generation 62 GB 🌱 1 13k Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B updated 37d ago 🧲 Magnet image-text-to-text 56 GB 🌱 1 7.3M ISTA-DASLab/Qwen3.8-27B-GSQ-RCO-GGUF updated 19d ago 🧲 Magnet image-text-to-text 12 GB 🌱 1 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 🌱 14 2.2M Browse 669k+ eligible models → The permanence layer for sovereign AI. Pirate Face is decentralized infrastructure for sovereign AI.
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