alt Hacker Newsso multiple of these browser wasm demos make me re-download the models, can someone make a cdn for it or some sort u uberfast downloader? just throw some claude credits against it ty!
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Adding a file input where users can upload files to the frontend directly from their file manager would probably work as a stop-gap measure, for the ones who want something quick that let people manage their own "cache" of model files.
Would you be okay with it using your upload at the same time, then a p2p model would work. (This is potentially a good match for p2p because edge connections are very fast, they don't have to go across the whole Internet). You could be downloading from uploaders in your region. Let me know if you would be okay with uploading at the same time, then this model works and I can build it for you for people to use this way.
CDN wouldn't help much. These days browsers partition caches by origin, so if two different tools (running on different domains) fetch the same model from the CDN, the browser would download it twice.