diff --git a/hosts/packages/huggingface_hub/flake.nix b/hosts/packages/huggingface_hub/flake.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..37814d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hosts/packages/huggingface_hub/flake.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# Template: https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world/development/intro
+{
+  description = "Humanity's Last Exam - Devshell";
+
+  inputs = {
+    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-25.05";
+  };
+
+  outputs = {nixpkgs, ...}: let
+    system = "x86_64-linux";
+    pkgs = import nixpkgs {
+      inherit system;
+    };
+    python = pkgs.python312.override {
+      self = python;
+      packageOverrides = pyfinal: pyprev: {
+        huggingface-hub = pyfinal.callPackage ./huggingface_hub.nix {};
+        hf-xet = pyfinal.callPackage ./hf-xet.nix {};
+      };
+    };
+  in {
+    devShells."${system}".default = pkgs.mkShell {
+      packages = [
+        (python.withPackages (pypkgs: [
+          pypkgs.huggingface-hub
+        ]))
+      ];
+
+      shell = "${pkgs.bash}/bin/bash";
+      shellHook = ''
+        alias hf=huggingface-cli
+      '';
+    };
+  };
+}
diff --git a/hosts/packages/huggingface_hub/hf-xet.nix b/hosts/packages/huggingface_hub/hf-xet.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0f4c631
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hosts/packages/huggingface_hub/hf-xet.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  buildPythonPackage,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  pkg-config,
+  rustPlatform,
+  openssl,
+}:
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "hf-xet";
+  version = "1.1.5";
+  pyproject = true;
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "huggingface";
+    repo = "xet-core";
+    tag = "v${version}";
+    hash = "sha256-udjZcXTH+Mc4Gvj6bSPv1xi4MyXrLeCYav+7CzKWyhY=";
+  };
+
+  sourceRoot = "${src.name}/hf_xet";
+
+  cargoDeps = rustPlatform.fetchCargoVendor {
+    inherit
+      pname
+      version
+      src
+      sourceRoot
+      ;
+    hash = "sha256-PTzYubJHFvhq6T3314R4aqBAJlwehOqF7SbpLu4Jo6E=";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    pkg-config
+    rustPlatform.cargoSetupHook
+    rustPlatform.maturinBuildHook
+  ];
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    openssl
+  ];
+
+  env.OPENSSL_NO_VENDOR = 1;
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = ["hf_xet"];
+
+  # No tests (yet?)
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Xet client tech, used in huggingface_hub";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/huggingface/xet-core/tree/main/hf_xet";
+    changelog = "https://github.com/huggingface/xet-core/releases/tag/v${version}";
+    license = lib.licenses.asl20;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/hosts/packages/huggingface_hub/huggingface_hub.nix b/hosts/packages/huggingface_hub/huggingface_hub.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..02b03b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hosts/packages/huggingface_hub/huggingface_hub.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+/*
+* WARNING: Just use `pkgs.python312Packages.huggingface-hub` (or change python version)
+* WARNING: I didn't realise it existed when I packaged this.
+*
+* Nix Resources:
+*   1. https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Python
+*   2. https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/unstable/#developing-with-python
+*
+* Hugging Face Resources:
+*   1. https://github.com/huggingface/huggingface_hub
+*   2. https://huggingface.co/docs/huggingface_hub/main/en/guides/cli
+*/
+{
+  lib,
+  buildPythonPackage,
+  fetchPypi,
+  # build time dependencies
+  setuptools,
+  # runtime dependencies
+  filelock,
+  fsspec,
+  hf-xet,
+  pyyaml,
+  requests,
+  tqdm,
+  typing-extensions,
+}:
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "huggingface_hub";
+  version = "0.34.3";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    hash = "sha256-1YEw/VqnQISAaBR1SRwKvX6DVEIIL7w+9NRbbDn4OFM=";
+  };
+
+  pyproject = true;
+  doCheck = false; # skip unit testing
+  pythonImportsCheck = ["huggingface_hub"];
+
+  # buildtime dependencies
+  build-system = [
+    setuptools
+  ];
+  # runtime dependencies
+  dependencies = [
+    filelock
+    fsspec
+    hf-xet
+    pyyaml
+    requests
+    tqdm
+    typing-extensions
+  ];
+
+  meta = rec {
+    description = "The official Python client for the Huggingface Hub.";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/huggingface/huggingface_hub";
+    changelog = "${homepage}/releases/tag/v${version}";
+    license = lib.licenses.asl20; # Apache License 2.0
+  };
+}