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Daniël de Kok

@danieldk.eu
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Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, LLM, transformers, macOS, NixOS, Rust, C++, Python, Cycling. Working on inference at Hugging Face 🤗. Open source ML 🚀.

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Daniël de Kok @danieldk.eu · 22/09/2026
So cool! transformers can now run GGUF models efficiently. To bring the performance close to llama.cpp, it uses the underlying ggml kernels through our kernels library. Awesome work by @marcsun.bsky.social et al.! huggingface.co/blog/transfo...
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Transformers now runs llama.cpp quants
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It is with great sadness that we announce the recent loss of a dear GroNLP group member. Gosse Bouma will always remain in our hearts! If you would like to write down memories or your condolences, you are welcome to do so via this www.condoleance.nl/19800.
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Ines Montani 〰️ @inesmontani.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Exactly 10 years ago today, Matthew and I sat at the notary's office overlooking the city of Berlin, and signed the founding documents of our company, @explosion.ai. So much has happened since and we got to witness the field evolve, "AI" become mainstream, and hypes come and go. (1/8)
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Tom Aarsen @tomaarsen.com · 18/08/2026
🚨I've just released Sentence Transformers v6.0! MultiVectorEncoder joins the family: ColBERT-style late interaction models are now a first-class model type, for training, inference & interpretation, alongside dense, sparse & reranker models. Big thread 🧵
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Ines Montani 〰️ @inesmontani.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I gave a talk on "Build-to-own AI: Agentic Development for Humans" at PyCon Armenia: how coding agents change the way we build ML systems and why code and programmable interfaces matter more than ever, not less. Here's the whole thing as a thread 🧵 (1/18)
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Ines Montani 〰️ @inesmontani.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
You can think of human-agent collaboration like a centaur, and we imagine we're the head. But if the computer tells you what to do and you just click buttons and report back, you've got the horse's head and the human butt. That's why so many AI workflows feel bad. We need shared interfaces.
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
People not in tech have been interested in what happened with the Open AI agent/Hugging Face hack. So, I "Explain it Like I'm 5"-ed it and made a cartoon in 8 panels. Apologies for some anthro-ing. 🫤 m-mitchell.com/HF-hack-cart... 1/8
An AI agent in development at OpenAI was recently tested on how well it could find and exploit code vulnerabilities.

The test began in a "sandbox", an environment meant to keep everything the agent does contained, so that nothing it triggers can affect systems outside of the test.
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heise online @heiseonline.flipboard.com.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026
Volkswagen blocks custom ROM users from VW app www.heise.de/en/news/Volkswagen-blo… Posted into heise online international @heise-online-international-heiseonline
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Volkswagen blocks custom ROM users from VW app
Volkswagen has blocked access to its app for users of custom ROMs like GrapheneOS or LineageOS. The reason is the Google Play Integrity API.
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Daniël de Kok @danieldk.eu · 06/07/2026
We recently made a lot of updates to the kernels ecosystem, from improving security, adding a dedicated kernels repo type on the hub, to support for Apache tvm-ffi. We made a write-up of these recent changes in this blog post: huggingface.co/blog/revampe...
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🤗 Kernels: Major Updates
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Daniël de Kok @danieldk.eu · 01/07/2026
We have recently added Torch Stable ABI support to @hf.co kernels and kernel-builder. So you can now target a specific minimum Torch version for long-term support. We're rolling out Stable ABI builds of kernels in kernels-community, starting with Flash Attention 3: huggingface.co/kernels/kern...
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kernels-community/flash-attn3 at v1
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Daniël de Kok @danieldk.eu · 30/06/2026
I switched from Claude Sonnet/Opus to mostly using Kimi K2.7 Code and GLM-5.2, and... nothing bad happened. The @hf.co Inference API makes it super easy to switch between different models and providers: huggingface.co/inference/mo... Open models are really competitive - great pricing and fast.
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Hugging Face Inference Providers · Supported Models
Exhaustive list of models supported by Hugging Face Inference Providers with detailed features and performance metrics.
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Sofie Van Landeghem @oxykodit.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Looking for a software engineer to help maintain your OS repo? I currently have availability for a part-time open-source engagement. Preferably, focused on data, evaluations, NLP/ML/LLM. I work as a consultant through my company OxyKodit. DM me if you'd like to explore working together!
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Daniël de Kok @danieldk.eu · 22/06/2026
The flexibility of #nix and #nixos is insane. What if you are building compute kernels with Nix, but you need them to be compatible with manylinux_2_28 (based on Enterprise Linux 8)? Simple, repackage the EL8 gcc toolset RPMs as Nix derivations and wrap it in a stdenv. github.com/huggingface/...
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kernels/nix-builder/pkgs/manylinux at main · huggingface/kernels
Build compute kernels and load them from the Hub. Contribute to huggingface/kernels development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/06/2026
Messi xkcd.com/3260/
Comic. Lionel Messi: World Cup Goals per game. [Graph with x axis as year and y axis as number of goals per game, ranging from 0 to 3. Data points: 2006 (~1/3), 2010 (0), 2014 (~1/2), 2018 (~1/4), 2022 (1), 2026 (3) with parenthetical (so far). Behind the line connecting the points is a grayed out curve showing the trajectory.] [caption] At this rate, by 2040 Messi will be scoring hundreds of goals per game.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 07/06/2026
Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.
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Daniël de Kok @danieldk.eu · 29/05/2026
We released kernels 0.15.1, packed with new features, including: * Torch stable ABI support * Better manylinux_2_28 support * A skill for making XPU kernels * Better offline support * Docs on IDE support for local development. github.com/huggingface/...
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Release v0.15.1 · huggingface/kernels
New features Specifying a kernel version is now required As announced by deprecation warnings in previous releases, specifying the kernel version is now required when loading a kernel. E.g. # Not v...
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Ines Montani 〰️ @inesmontani.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Want to be a beta partner of our upcoming product for agentic NLP? We're looking for teams who need help with their NLP projects, especially around tasks like information extraction. Ellf is a virtual assistant for NLP projects – think Claude Code, but with NLP superpowers, or "Vibe NLP" ✨
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Daniël de Kok @danieldk.eu · 15/04/2026
Safetensors has become one of the cornerstones of machine learning tooling for safe loading of arrays. Safetensors has now joined the @pytorch.org Foundation: pytorch.org/blog/pytorch... The repository has also moved to a new home: github.com/safetensors/...
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PyTorch Foundation Announces Safetensors as Newest Contributed Project to Secure AI Model Execution – PyTorch
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John Siracusa @siracusa.social · 31/03/2026
Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️ The mere act of existing and being visible shouldn’t be as fraught as it is today. Let’s keep fighting to set things right. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...
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International Transgender Day of Visibility - Wikipedia
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pngwn @pngwn.at · 29/03/2026
I got tables working nice
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Alvaro Bartolome @alvarobartt.com · 17/02/2026
More embedding models and an even more reliable inference engine is what you get with @hf.co Text Embeddings Inference v1.9.0 💥 More in the thread 🧵
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Daniël de Kok @danieldk.eu · 13/02/2026
Kernels now has an agent skill to write custom Hub kernels: huggingface.co/blog/custom-... Awesome work by @benburtenshaw.bsky.social and Sayak Paul! 🔥
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Custom Kernels for All from Codex and Claude
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Daniël de Kok @danieldk.eu · 27/01/2026
kernels 0.12 is out! 🎉 Changes: * Support for kernel version branches to gracefully roll out kernel API changes. * Support for PyTorch 2.10. * kernel-builder is now merged into the kernels repo. * Initial support for standardized kernel benchmarks. github.com/huggingface/...
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Release v0.12.0 · huggingface/kernels
New features Merge of kernels and kernel-builder repositories kernel-builder has been merged into the kernels repository. This makes it easier for us to coordinate changes that affect both the kern...
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Adina Yakup @adinayakup.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
DeepSeek R1 dropped one year ago 🐳 and a lot has changed. With Irene Solaiman, we’re launching a blog series on @hf.co about how that moment reshaped AI + open source in 2025, starting with strategic shifts and the explosion of new open models in China! huggingface.co/blog/hugging...
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One Year Since the “DeepSeek Moment”
A Blog post by Hugging Face on Hugging Face
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Antonin Poché @antoninpoche.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
🔥I am super excited for the official release of an open-source library we've been working on for about a year! 🪄interpreto is an interpretability toolbox for HF language models🤗. In both generation and classification! Why do you need it, and for what? 1/8 (links at the end)
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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
👀 Look what 🎅 has broght just before Christmas 🎁: a brand new Research Master in Natural Language Processing at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl Program: www.rug.nl/masters/natu... Applications (2026/2027) are open! Come and study with us (you will also learn why we have a 🐮 in our logo)
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Natural Language Processing
How do you build Large Language Models? How do humans experience Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications in their daily lives? And how can we...
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Daniël de Kok @danieldk.eu · 13/12/2025
I finally made a page on my Dish activation function, replacing my deleted Tweet: danieldk.eu/Dish-Activat... It's a non-monotonic function similar to GELU/SiLU, but does not require elementary functions, making it faster on various hardware. I'll leave the empirical evaluation to someone else 😁.
Benchmarks comparing RISC-V vectorized activation functions on a Milk-V Duo 256M. Dish is the fastest with 110M elements per second, followed by Swish with 57M elements per second and the slowest is the Cook GELU approximation coming in at 39M elements per second.
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Julien Chaumond @julien-c.hf.co · 02/11/2025
Training LLMs end to end is hard. But way more people should, and will, be doing it in the future. The @hf.co Research team is excited to share their new e-book that covers the full pipeline: · pre-training, · post-training, · infra. 200+ pages of what worked and what didn’t. ⤵️
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 03/10/2025
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.
Graph showing the conversion of Hugging Face repositories from LFS storage to Xet storage.
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Daniël de Kok @danieldk.eu · 19/08/2025
We made a blog post on how you can use kernel-builder to develop and build compute kernels for the @hf.co Kernel Hub: huggingface.co/blog/kernel-...
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From Zero to GPU: A Guide to Building and Scaling Production-Ready CUDA Kernels
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Daniël de Kok @danieldk.eu · 06/08/2025
Yesterday we released support for GPT OSS (the new OpenAI open weight model) across the @hf.co ecosystem. The latest Transformers now integrates support for the kernels package and uses kernels from the HF Kernel Hub to run models like GPT OSS as fast as possible. 🚀 huggingface.co/blog/welcome...
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Welcome GPT OSS, the new open-source model family from OpenAI!
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Daniël de Kok @danieldk.eu · 26/07/2025
Transformers 4.54.0 is out! This release adds support for compute kernels hosted on the Hub. When enabled, transformers can replace PyTorch layer implementations by fast, specialized kernels from the hub. github.com/huggingface/...
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Release v4.54.0: Kernels, Transformers Serve, Ernie, Voxtral, LFM2, DeepSeek v2, ModernBERT Decoder... · huggingface/transformers
Important news! In order to become the source of truth, we recognize that we need to address two common and long-heard critiques about transformers: transformers is bloated transformers is slow O...
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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Just released a new version of mktestdocs. It now also supports huggingface docstrings! github.com/koaning/mkt...
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GitHub - koaning/mktestdocs: Run pytest against markdown files/docstrings.
Run pytest against markdown files/docstrings. Contribute to koaning/mktestdocs development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Tom Aarsen @tomaarsen.com · 17/07/2025
Some of the ModernBERT team is back with new encoder models: Ettin, ranging from tiny to small: 17M, 32M, 68M, 150M, 400M & 1B parameters. They also trained decoder models & checked if decoders could classify & if encoders could generate. Details in 🧵:
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Thomas Wolf @thomwolf.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
So excited to finally release our first robot today: Reachy Mini A dream come true: cute and low priced, hackable yet easy to use, powered by open-source and the infinite community. Read more and order now at huggingface.co/blog/reachy-...
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Your open-source companion - Reachy Mini
YouTube video by Pollen Robotics
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openSUSE @opensuse.org · 24/06/2025
SUSE has released Cavil-Qwen3-4B, a fine-tuned, #opensource #LLM on #HuggingFace. Built to detect #legal text like license declarations, it empowers #devs to stay #compliant. #fast #efficiently. #openSUSE #AI #Licenses news.opensuse.org/2025/06/24/s...
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SUSE Refines, Releases Open-Source LLM to Fuel Community Collaboration
Today, SUSE has released a new fine-tuned version of the language model, Cavil-Qwen3-4B, as open source on openSUSE’s Hugging Face in order to make legal com...
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Daniël de Kok @danieldk.eu · 17/06/2025
Over the past few months, we have worked on the @hf.co Kernel Hub. Kernel Hub allows you to get cutting-edge compute kernels directly from the hub in a few lines of code. David Holz made a great writeup of how you can use kernels in your projects: huggingface.co/blog/hello-h...
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Learn the Hugging Face Kernel Hub in 5 Minutes
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Ines Montani 〰️ @inesmontani.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Hi Berlin people! @hugobowne.bsky.social is in town & we're celebrating by hosting a meetup together 🎉 This one is all about building with AI & we'll also open the floor for lightning talks. If you're around, come hang out with us! 📆 June 16, 18:00 📍 Native Instruments (Kreuzberg) 🎟️ lu.ma/d53y9p2u
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Daniël de Kok @danieldk.eu · 22/05/2025
TGI v3.3.1 is released! This version switches to Torch 2.7 and CUDA 12.8. This should improve support for GPUs with compute capabilities 10.0 (B200) and 12.0 (RTX50x0 and NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell GPUs). github.com/huggingface/...
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Release v3.3.1 · huggingface/text-generation-inference
This release updates TGI to Torch 2.7 and CUDA 12.8. What's Changed change HPU warmup logic: seq length should be with exponential growth by @kaixuanliu in #3217 adjust the round_up_seq logic to a...
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Dörte de Kok @doerte.eu · 17/05/2025
@aob.nl mooie tijdslijn van de stakingen in het onderwijsblad, alleen de staking van 18 maart bij de @rug.nl vergeten, wel een beetje jammer!
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Daniël de Kok @danieldk.eu · 09/05/2025
We just released text-generation-inference 3.3.0. This release adds prefill chunking for VLMs 🚀. We have also Gemma 3 faster & use less VRAM by switching to flashinfer for prefills with images. github.com/huggingface/...
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Release v3.3.0 · huggingface/text-generation-inference
Notable changes Prefill chunking for VLMs. What's Changed Fixing Qwen 2.5 VL (32B). by @Narsil in #3157 Fixing tokenization like https://github.com/huggingface/text-embeddin… by @Narsil in #3156...
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Daniël de Kok @danieldk.eu · 16/04/2025
At @hf.co we are also building...
A T-Shirt with a hugging face emoji with a construction hat and the text 'kernels'.
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 05/04/2025
The entire Xet team is so excited to bring Llama 4 to the @hf.co community. Every byte downloaded comes through our infrastructure ❤️ 🤗 ❤️ 🤗 ❤️ 🤗 Read the whole post to see more about these models.
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Welcome Llama 4 Maverick & Scout on Hugging Face
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Erik @erikkaum.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Gemma 3 is live 🔥 You can deploy it from endpoints directly with an optimally selected hardware and configurations. Give it a try 👇
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Daniël de Kok @danieldk.eu · 11/03/2025
HuggingChat keycap sticker when?
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Kagi HQ @kagi.com · 07/03/2025
We're thrilled to announce that development of the Orion Browser for Linux has officially started! Register here to receive news and early access opportunities throughout the development year: forms.kagi.com?q=orion_linu...
A screenshot of the "About Orion" window for the Orion browser. The window features the Orion logo, a starburst design with a central white star and smaller stars on a purple and blue gradient background. The text reads: "Orion. Version 0.0.0.0.1 (WebKit development). Build date Mar 5, 2025. x86_64 (Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS). Orion Browser by Kagi. Copyright © 2020-2025 Kagi. All rights reserved. Humanize the Web." Below the text are three buttons labeled "Get Orion+," "Send Feedback," and "Licenses." The background is a soft purple gradient.
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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
want to try QwQ-32B? it just landed on HuggingChat!
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jsulz @jsulz.com · 21/02/2025
Six months after joining @hf.co we’re kicking off the first migrations from LFS -> Xet backed storage for a handful of repos on the Hugging Face Hub. A few months ago, I published a timeline of our work and this is a big step (of many!) to bring our storage to the Hub - more in 🧵👇
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