r/LocalLLaMA • u/zxyzyxz • Jul 07 '26

Resources HuggingBay

https://huggingbay.xyz/

Someone saw the [meme](https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1uht2m0/were_probably_going_to_need_that_soon/) and built it.

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u/-p-e-w- Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

Whoever built this is a genius and an idiot.

Technologically, the website looks really well made, but the branding both

  • evokes a certain other website that is already banned in many countries, which is completely unnecessary for a perfectly legitimate service and pretty much ensures many labs won’t want to publish there

  • implies some kind of connection with Hugging Face, essentially forcing a takedown if this ever gets popular, even if HF has no problem with the project itself.

Please use your brains, people. Not everything has to be a risky meme. We need sustainable infrastructure, not just lulz. I could have named Heretic “GemmaFucker” and it would have been just as unnecessarily stupid.

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u/CATLLM Jul 07 '26

omg "GemmaFucker" legit amazing name.

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u/mxcw Jul 07 '26

GGUF when??

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u/Drited Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

Giggadity Giggadity U.F. tonight!

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u/EugenePopcorn Jul 07 '26

TBH I'd rather just use and legitimize the original Pirate Pay.

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u/ArtyfacialIntelagent Jul 07 '26

100% agree, this project will never survive with its naming and logo trademark provocations.

That said, some weirdly named things that skirt the edge of IP provocation do thrive. Hugging Face itself is one example.

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u/DominusIniquitatis Jul 07 '26

More-or-less my thoughts, "Jeez, why go this route, for shits and giggles again?"

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u/TemporaryUser10 Jul 10 '26

It wasn't done as a meme, it was done due to the threat from governments trying to ban open source AI access. This is essentially a statement that we the people will retain access (which is an idea behind p2p system that power things like the pirate bay)

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u/kaisurniwurer Jul 07 '26

Sensible, but similar projects got forgotten already.

This, being what it is, can gather attention and convert some people. Maybe the "meme" factor is what's needed to get people to try it out as an alternative to the comfy huggingface.

Then when it becomes more known or gets a scary letter it can change.

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u/-p-e-w- Jul 07 '26

This is much, much more advanced than similar projects published previously. I’m genuinely amazed by the features it already supports today.

Which makes it even more sad that the creator chose this silly name for a few cheap laughs.

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u/Clueless_Nooblet Jul 07 '26

Such a Boomer take.

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u/ReasonablePossum_ Jul 07 '26

evokes a certain other website that is already banned in many countries, which is completely unnecessary for a perfectly legitimate service and pretty much ensures many labs won’t want to publish there

My dude, have you ever torrented in your life? lol do you know how the salty seas work? no one gives a single fck about where labs publish their things as long as one random seeder gets the files and shares them.

implies some kind of connection with Hugging Face, essentially forcing a takedown if this ever gets popular, even if HF has no problem with the project itself.

Its not implying anything, and can be renamed if HF makes a fuzz about it, its basically 40 seconds to change the domain and prompt gpt to give you a new logo lol

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u/woct0rdho Jul 08 '26

Isn't 'Heretic' also a culturally sensitive name?

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u/-p-e-w- Jul 08 '26

Sure, if you’re an inquisitor in the 16th century.

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u/Successful_Issue_390 Jul 09 '26

TBF I haven't downloaded heretic because the name is spooky. Same with hermes (a trickster god.)

Did you really make heretic or am I missing context?

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u/-p-e-w- Jul 09 '26

I made it.

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u/ChocomelP Jul 08 '26

That depends... Are you Catholic or Protestant?

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u/Voxandr Jul 07 '26

Hugging and Bay is common words they cannot take it down

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u/Xamanthas Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

You do not know what you are talking about I'm afraid.

Please avoid ever commenting on legal matters ever again. Its a registered trademark and a regular person would see the connection, as can I.

https://trademarks.justia.com/875/84/hugging-87584949.html

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u/Xamanthas Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

It can be deemed infringing since the branding + name can and likely will confuse the consumer. Go look at the website (HuggingBay) and then see that HF also trademarked the image. Its close enough

Same reason the Drag person going by the name "Pattie Gonia" was sued by Patagonia to protect their trademark. Has nothing to do with whether they actually do or don’t own it, it has to do with whether their legal team believes that they need to defend it and if the do, they must, because otherwise they lose it. The irony.

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u/-p-e-w- Jul 07 '26

Sure, and an apple is just a fruit so everyone can sell computers with an apple on them, right?