Here’s a little-known fact in academia: The most anxiety-inducing countdown isn’t for a Double 11 shopping delivery, but for paper submission deadlines.

For the past two years, AI researchers have relied on the "AI Conference Deadlines" website maintained by PapersWithCode to track submission cutoffs. This tool was brutally simple yet effective—until PapersWithCode abruptly shut down this year, leaving many staring blankly at their browser bookmarks.


Now, this lifeline tool has found refuge on HuggingFace. The new site retains its minimalist style: a plain white background with black text listing the conference name, deadline, timezone, and event date—no progress bar animations or frills. This anti-user-experience design carries a dark academic humor—after all, who needs flashy reminders when you’re truly racing against the clock?


The migration itself is intriguing. As AI infrastructure grows increasingly centralized, these seemingly niche tools become litmus tests for platform utility. HuggingFace isn’t just hosting a URL—it’s preserving a piece of the academic community’s collective memory.

Direct link: https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingface/ai-deadlines

(Bookmark it, but don’t rely too much—after all, what saves you isn’t the countdown tool, but the caffeine at 3 AM.)