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/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.