Pirate Face

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:55:00 -0500

AI models as torrents.

Pirate Face mirrors eligible open-licensed (MIT/Apache-2.0) Hugging Face models as checksum-verified BitTorrent magnets — “the permanence layer for sovereign AI”. If a model page disappears, peers keep seeding; downloads can be verified bit-for-bit against recorded SHA-256s. Terminal search via curl https://pirateface.co/s/qwen, verified creator handles tied to HF accounts, 669k+ eligible models listed, live seeder counts shown (many need seeders). A planned drop-in HF_ENDPOINT API would make it a transparent alternate download path.

NYX-99 City Simulator

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:46:00 -0500

City simulator.

NYX-99 is a terminal-based idle civilization simulator in Node.js: a living 1999 city where thousands of agents eat, sleep, work, socialize, get mugged, marry, have kids, run for office, and die — no player input, you watch through a live blessed TUI. Each simulant runs a behavior tree plus a 13-state FSM with utility scoring; there’s payroll and rent (evictions after three missed months), conversations drawn from a 1999 cultural database (Napster, Y2K, the Knicks), and a full election cycle whose mayor’s stances mechanically change crime, transit, and rent. Worker threads scale it to 10–15k agents on an 8-core box; world content lives in editable YAML.

Open-Source on Phil Wheat

Pirate Face

NYX-99 City Simulator