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Ask HN: Best way to buy second hand compute (in a future AI crash)

A user on Hacker News asks for advice on buying second-hand compute hardware, anticipating a future AI market crash that could flood the market with used GPUs from data centers.

read1 min views1 publishedJul 16, 2026

| |||||||||||| 3 points by | So, in a land before kids and mortgages I had a homelab, and want to start again. I also think that give it a few months and the AI bud out bubble will burst and a couple of data r free worth of GPUs might come available Buying off eBay sounds crazy so what’s the right way to find compute from sell offs, refreshed estates and so on? | ||||||||||| Applications are open till July 27. |

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news.ycombinator.com — original article Ask HN: Who build production apps with out seeing code? Making something on your own(without any LLM) feels so good I reverse-engineered the three biggest agent-memory tools
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