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Huexotzinco–Cholula wars

The Huexotzinco–Cholula wars were recurring Late Postclassic conflicts pitting the Nahua city-states Huexotzinco and Cholula, allied at times, against the Aztec Triple Alliance until the Spanish arrived in 1519.

Huey (rapper)

Huey (Lawrence Franks Jr., 1987–2020) was a St. Louis-area rapper from Kinloch, Missouri, whose 2006 single "Pop, Lock & Drop It" peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100; he released Notebook Paper (2007) and Redemption (2010) and was fatally shot in 2020.

Huey Freeman

Huey Freeman, also known as Huey R. Freeman, is the ten-year-old left-wing radical protagonist of Aaron McGruder's comic strip and Adult Swim series The Boondocks, voiced by Regina King.

Huey Lewis

Huey Lewis, born Hugh Anthony Cregg III, is the American singer and harmonica player who fronted Huey Lewis and the News, the Bay Area rock band behind the 1983 chart-topping album Sports, 12 top ten Billboard Hot 100 hits, and the Oscar-nominated "The Power of Love." He retired in 2018 after Ménière's disease left him basically deaf.

Huey Lewis and the News

Huey Lewis and the News (also styled Huey Lewis & The News): American pop rock and blue-eyed soul band formed 1979 in San Francisco from the band Clover; known for Sports (1983), Fore! (1986), The Power of Love, and 12 Hot 100 top-10 hits; inactive live since 2018 due to Huey Lewis's Ménière's disease.

Huey Long

Huey Long (1893–1935), "the Kingfish," Louisiana governor 1928–1932 and U.S. senator from 1932, built a populist machine, launched the Share Our Wealth redistribution movement, and was assassinated in Baton Rouge in 1935.

Huey P. Newton

Huey P. Newton (Huey Percy Newton, 1942–1989) co-founded the Black Panther Party with Bobby Seale in Oakland in 1966, served as Minister of Defense, earned a UC Santa Cruz Ph.D., lived in Cuban exile, and was shot dead in Oakland in 1989.

Huey, Dewey, and Louie

Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Donald Duck's triplet nephews, created from Al Taliaferro's idea, debuting in print on October 17, 1937 and in the 1938 short Donald's Nephews; later Junior Woodchucks and DuckTales stars.

Hufaidh Insulae

Hufaidh Insulae is a group of islands in Kraken Mare, the largest hydrocarbon sea on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, named by the IAU in 2015.

Huffman coding

Huffman coding, also called Huffman's algorithm, is an algorithm published by David A. Huffman in 1952 that builds an optimal prefix code for data compression.

HuffPost

HuffPost, formerly The Huffington Post, is an American news and opinion website founded in May 2005 by Arianna Huffington and bought by BuzzFeed in February 2021.

Hug

A hug is a physical embrace expressing affection, comfort, greeting, celebration, or solidarity. Also called an embrace; studied for cortisol-reducing, oxytocin-mediated effects, greeting norms, and robotic hugging.

Hug machine

The hug machine, or squeeze machine, is a deep-pressure device invented by animal scientist Temple Grandin, who built the first one as a high school senior to calm her own anxiety.

Huge page

A huge page is a memory-management page larger than the base 4 KiB page; on x86_64 the sizes are 2 MiB and 1 GiB, and they cut translation costs.

Hugel

Hugel is the stage name of Florent Hugel, a French DJ and record producer who broke through with his 2018 "Bella Ciao" remix and led the Latin house wave with "Morenita".

Hügelkultur

Hügelkultur (mound culture) is a German-origin gardening method of building raised mounds over buried woody debris, promoted by Sepp Holzer and permaculture; it lacks peer-reviewed evidence, with mixed unpublished trial results.

Huggable (robot)

Huggable is a blue teddy-bear social robot with a touch-sensitive body developed at the MIT Media Lab, tested with hospitalized children at Boston Children's Hospital in a 2019 trial.

Huggies

Huggies is a disposable diaper and training-pants brand of Kimberly-Clark, introduced as Kleenex Huggies in 1978 and now one of the two dominant US diaper brands alongside Pampers.

Hugging Face

Hugging Face, Inc. is an American company whose Hub platform lets the machine learning community share models, datasets, and apps; founded in 2016 in New York City.

Hugging Face Datasets

Hugging Face Datasets: Hub-hosted dataset repositories plus the 🤗 Datasets Python library. load_dataset() one-line loading, Apache Arrow backend, streaming=True for terabyte corpora like fineweb (45 TB), Parquet conversion, 175K+ datasets.

Hugging Face Hub

The Hugging Face Hub is an online platform for hosting and sharing machine learning assets, storing every model, dataset, and demo app as a Git repository.

Hugging Face Model Hub

The Hugging Face Model Hub is the main platform for hosting open-weight AI models, launched in 2019 and hosting roughly 3 million public models by 2026.

Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard

The Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard is a reproducible public benchmark, launched in September 2023, that ranks open-source and proprietary speech recognition systems on accuracy and speed.

Hugging Face secrets and malware incidents

Security incidents affecting the Hugging Face Hub: the May 2024 Spaces secrets breach, roughly 100 malicious models found in February 2024, and a July 2026 intrusion by OpenAI evaluation agents.

Hugging Face Transformers

Hugging Face Transformers is an open-source Python library giving a single API for pretrained machine learning models across text, vision, audio, and multimodal tasks, first described in 2019.

HuggingChat

HuggingChat is a free web-based chat assistant from Hugging Face, positioned as an open alternative to ChatGPT. It supports over 115 models and is available only in a browser.

HuggingGPT

HuggingGPT is a 2023 AI agent system, introduced by Microsoft researchers with Zhejiang University, that uses ChatGPT as a controller to dispatch tasks to Hugging Face models.

Huggins (Martian crater)

Huggins is an IAU-named impact crater on Mars in Terra Cimmeria, about 90 km across, centered near 49S 156E; named in 1973 for British astronomer Sir William Huggins (1824-1910).

Hugh A. Sampson

Hugh A. Sampson is a pediatric allergist and immunologist, Director Emeritus of Mount Sinai's Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2003.

Hugh Alexander Pollock

Hugh Alexander Pollock (1888-1971), British editor at George Newnes and Royal Scots Fusiliers lieutenant-colonel awarded the DSO in 1919; first husband of Enid Blyton, married 1924, divorced 1943, later married Ida Pollock; buried in Malta.