Your Hugging Face download isn't stuck — you're being rate-limited
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I killed a perfectly healthy 2 GB model download three times before I understood what was happening. Each time the same picture: the first 100–200 MB fly by in about a minute, then the progress bar freezes at 0 B/s. Not slow — zero. A minute passes. Five. Ten. Any reasonable person concludes the download is dead, kills the process, and tries again. And again the first 200 MB arrive instantly, and again everything stops. The download was fine. I was being rate-limited, and everything about how…
1Key Takeaways
- I killed a perfectly healthy 2 GB model download three times before I understood what was happening.
- Each time the same picture: the first 100–200 MB fly by in about a minute, then the progress bar freezes at 0 B/s.
- Any reasonable person concludes the download is dead, kills the process, and tries again.
- And again the first 200 MB arrive instantly, and again everything stops.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that i killed a perfectly healthy 2 GB model download three times before I understood what was happening.
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