{"slug": "show-hn-potluck-run-local-ai-across-the-computers-you-own", "title": "Show HN: Potluck – Run local AI across the computers you own", "summary": "Developer Rob released Potluck, a tool that links multiple user-owned computers into a single network to run larger local AI models, after working on the project for a couple of months. Potluck is designed to let idle laptops and gaming computers lend compute power to other Potluck users running large models, according to the Show HN post. The project had 2 points and 0 comments on Hacker News at the time of the post.", "body_md": "Hey All, my name is Rob and i've been working on Potluck for a couple of months. The idea is pretty simple... I can't afford a huge cluster of machines, nor can I afford a bunch of GPUs or cloud instances. But I do have a couple of laptops, a couple of gaming computers and I figured why can't I just map those machines together to run larger models?\n\nPotluck allows you to do this very thing. The goal and what i'm working on currently is to have a network of user owned machines to power large models for each other. This is on your own machines, or machines that you have in an office space, or eventually machines all linked together via Potluck. Each idle gaming computer or laptop lending compute power to other people who are running Potluck and vice versa.\n\nTry it out, and me know if you have any questions or comments and i'll do my best to answer!\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832275](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832275)\n\nPoints: 2\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-potluck-run-local-ai-across-the-computers-you-own", "canonical_source": "https://trypotluck.ai/", "published_at": "2026-09-24 15:42:36+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-24 16:00:29.573105+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-tools", "large-language-models", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Potluck", "Rob", "Hacker News"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-potluck-run-local-ai-across-the-computers-you-own", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-potluck-run-local-ai-across-the-computers-you-own.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-potluck-run-local-ai-across-the-computers-you-own.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-potluck-run-local-ai-across-the-computers-you-own.jsonld"}}