#storage

HN latched onto Artifacts because it treats Git not as a human workflow, but as storage for millions of agent sessions.

Werner Vogels used S3 Files to argue that storage primitives need to adapt to agentic software and data-heavy pipelines, not just object APIs. Hacker News is reading the launch as an attempt to cut the copy-and-sync tax between S3 and traditional file-based tooling.

Hugging Face has launched Storage Buckets, a mutable and non-versioned object storage layer for checkpoints, processed data, logs, and agent traces on the Hub. The company says Xet-based deduplication and cloud pre-warming should make large ML workflows faster and cheaper to operate.

Hugging Face introduced Storage Buckets on March 10, 2026 as non-versioned, S3-like storage for checkpoints, processed data, logs, and agent traces. The feature is built on Xet deduplication and includes pre-warming for AWS and GCP to move hot data closer to compute.

Myrient, one of the internet's largest video game preservation archives at 390TB, is being taken offline as AI data center demand has caused RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices to skyrocket beyond what small operators can sustain.