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abidlabson Qwen 3.8 27B

The Hugging Face page (https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B) shows that Featherless supports the model (and includes the inference widget to try it out directly on the page)

abidlabson GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

It's not too hard to switch over from GitHub actions to other runners. For example, I wrote up the steps needed in order to use Hugging Face Jobs instead, which also enables GPU runners and other flavors. I use this for several of the repos I manage (such as Trackio):

https://huggingface.co/blog/github-ci-hf-jobs

abidlabson Claude Opus 5

I was curious to see how open weight models would do on this task so I passed in a screenshot of your source of truth and here's what 2 of the best code-generation models that allow image inputs do:

Inkling (not too great): https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/608b8b...

Kimi 2.7 (really well, esp. note that this is the predecessor model, not the latest Kimi3): https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/608b8b...

Here's how I tested them: https://huggingface.co/spaces/abidlabs/vlm-screenshot-to-web...

https://huggingface.co/spaces/abidlabs/vlm-screenshot-to-web...

abidlabson Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI

Hugging Face recently added a filter directly on the models page: https://huggingface.co/models that lets you filter based on hardware.

abidlabson Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI

Hugging Face recently added a filter directly on the models page: https://huggingface.co/models that lets you filter based on hardware.

abidlabson OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation

If this doesn't put the nail in the coffin on the idea that we need closed-source models for the good of cybersecurity, I don't know what will

abidlabson Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?

Yes! https://huggingface.co/changelog/agent-trace-viewer

abidlabson Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

Interesting to see Anthropic now downplaying the new vulnerabilities that Mythos discovered:

> We reviewed a demonstration of this specific technique being used to identify a small number of previously known, minor vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities all appear relatively simple, and we have found that other publicly-available models are able to discover them as well without requiring a bypass

abidlabson Reviving Papers with Code

Would you be interested in an RSS feed for: https://huggingface.co/papers/trending?

abidlabson Reviving Papers with Code

You could subscribe to daily papers at the top here: https://huggingface.co/papers/trending

abidlabson S3 Files

Hugging Face Buckets also recently added support for mounting Buckets as a filesystem: https://huggingface.co/changelog/hf-mount

abidlabson Hugging Face Provides an S3 Alternative

The most interesting thing is that charges can be potentially much less if you have duplicated data in your bucket

abidlabson OpenRouter Broadcast

Use Hugging Face inference providers for this: https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/en/index

abidlabson Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Islamism

https://archive.is/6DwJL

abidlabson Open models by OpenAI

Test it with a web UI: https://huggingface.co/spaces/abidlabs/openai-gpt-oss-120b-t...

abidlabson OpenAI Charges by the Minute, So Make the Minutes Shorter

You could use Hugging Face's Inference API (which supports all of these API providers) directly making it easier to switch between them, e.g. look at the panel on the right on: https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3

abidlabson Show HN: Turn any Python function into a WebRTC/WebSocket stream

Love the recipes and docs here, kudos on the launch!

abidlabson Stable Fast 3D: Rapid 3D Asset Generation from Single Images

Official Gradio demo is here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/stabilityai/stable-fast-3d

abidlabson DevRel at HuggingFace

(b) growth is still the right metric imo. for example, lots of open-source libraries (which by definition are available to use for free) measure and optimize for growth

abidlabson DevRel at HuggingFace

We have ~220 total team members across all roles

abidlabson DevRel at HuggingFace

Lucky to be part of this company and seen this strategy work close up. One thing I'll add is this "decentralized" approach applies to all Hugging Face teams, not just the developer advocacy team. Just to give an example, there's no central comms team at Hugging Face, every team (usually the engineers who work on the product or features) does their own comms across the channels they think work best. That means there's lots of experimentation and most of our hires tend to be generalists who are comfortable wearing many hats.

abidlabson Phi-3 Technical Report

Hugging Face Paper Page and Discussion: https://huggingface.co/papers/2404.14219

abidlabson Tweets to Citations: The Impact of Social Media Influencers on AI Research

Yes you’re right thanks, I should have disclaimed earlier, but AK is a member of the team I lead at Hugging Face.

abidlabson Tweets to Citations: The Impact of Social Media Influencers on AI Research

There are have been many, many services that have tried to automate paper selection based on these heuristics. None of them have had the staying power of AK's account. As someone with a PhD in machine learning from Stanford, I can attest AK's taste is quite good.

abidlabson OpenChat: Advancing open-source language models with imperfect data

Is there a Gradio demo?

abidlabson Show HN: A local Python prototyping tool for Jupyter and Streamlit

Is it possible to provide Gradio apps as an option?

abidlabson Gradio-Lite: Serverless Gradio Running in the Browser

What's the underlying technology that allows this to happen? Is it Pyodide-based? And does this support GPU-based models?

abidlabson Falcon 180B

What were your test questions?