Dev unhappy with new W&B UI, Hugging Face's open-source trackio pitched as free alternative
NielsRogge · x · 2026-10-01
A paying customer publicly complained about the new Weights & Biases UI (used with CoreWeave), threatening to build his own tracking server. Niels Rogge responded by pointing to trackio, Hugging Face's open-source experiment tracking library.
Key features:
- Local-first: log experiment data without creating an account
- Logs stored in SQLite, with support for freezing to Parquet
- Free, and designed to work well with AI agents
The repo has 1.7k stars on GitHub.
More from coding & agent
- Open-source MCP tool shares one memory across all local AI models, claims 99% token savings — gonzarom · 2026-10-01
- LEGO-Anything: Coding Agents Rebuild Single Images into Editable 3D Scenes — _akhaliq · 2026-10-01
- From SELECT to SYSADMIN: Critical SQL Copilot privilege escalation flaw patched by Microsoft — wunderwuzzi23 · 2026-10-01
- Magnitude: open-source inference engine that self-tunes kernels, up to 2x faster than llama.cpp — paranoidray · 2026-10-01
- Early look: Codex Plugin Extensions are cool but still rough around the edges — Angaisb_ · 2026-10-01
- Retriever AI's self-run benchmark scores 24/24 vs OpenAI Dots' 22/24 on five everyday agent tasks — quarkcarbon · 2026-10-01