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an exciting new startup promises to be "airbnb for gpus"! rent out your GPU to run untrusted code for pennies an hour: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40260259
bonus: the company is “pivoting” from drone delivery
bonus bonus: boomer in the comments going on a nonsequiter rant about trans furries
christ and of course it's a YC company. they really should print that on the office entrance wall or something
@froztbyte @techtakes
YC: Where The “Technology” Is Just The Bait
excuse you, i render my fursona with my own GPU
"New". The crypto bros already thought of this for GPUs years ago (they probably weren't the first), and the basic idea goes at least as far back as SETI@Home.
Also I guarantee these people haven't thought about, or don't really care about, the security implications of GPU rental. It ain't trivial that's for sure, I'd never connect my GPU to the internet with any program that has thought about this less than web browsers have (WebGL / WebGPU) for that reason alone.
So the top response is asking the painfully obvious question: how is this secure? Some dude (not sure if it's one of the startup employees) responds "Let's just use homomorphic encryption!" then throws a pissy fit because some people downvoted the suggestion of running extremely inefficient computation on rented hardware.
There's something so.... crypto bro.... about someone mad that influencers spill personal info for profit instead of having it stolen from them by hackers. "Hey! That was my payday!"
Uber, for GPUs.
Guuber?
were they selling nfts or shitcoins in the past?
I went looking and was actually surprised not to find crypto links in a 30 second search