Hardware

Meet the Intel GPU D-Series: Intel’s “Crescent Island” AI Server GPU Unveiled If you’ve been hanging around the self-hosting and homelab communities for any amount of time, you already know that the local AI revolution is in full swing. We are constantly looking for ways to squeeze more tokens per second out of our local Large Language Models (LLMs), run Stable Diffusion without waiting until next Tuesday for an image, and generally break free from the clutches of cloud API providers. ...

Linux Foundation Estimates 25% Of New Pull Requests To Be Low-Quality AI Slop Hey folks, welcome back to Self-Hosted Tech. If you’ve been running a homelab for any amount of time, you already know that the intersection of open-source software and local hardware is a beautiful thing. We spin up old mini PCs, provision Raspberry Pi clusters, and rack old enterprise gear to run our own Git servers, CI/CD pipelines, and local AI models. ...

Intel Core Ultra 9 Arrow Lake On Star Labs Starfighter Shows Nice Gains On Ubuntu 26.10 If you’ve been hanging around the Self-Hosted Tech community for a while, you know we love a good underdog story. We love it even more when that underdog story involves bleeding-edge hardware, a Linux-first philosophy, and a future-forward operating system that actually makes use of the silicon underneath the hood. ...

Taint_Forced_Bind Sent In For Linux 7.4 To Deal With Major Fuzzing Attack If you’ve spent any time in the homelab or self-hosting community, you already know that stability is the holy grail of our setups. Whether you’re running a massive Proxmox cluster, a humble Raspberry Pi cluster, or a beefy workstation loaded with local AI models, the last thing you want is a kernel panic taking down your services at 3:00 AM. ...

Ask HN: How to Deal with Shipping AI-Written Code You Don’t Understand (Homelab Edition) If you spend any time browsing tech communities like Hacker News, you’ve probably seen the recurring thread: “Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don’t understand.” It’s a question that strikes fear into the hearts of senior developers, but for those of us in the self-hosting and homelab community, it hits a little differently. ...

OpenBSD 8.0: Bringing Linux 6.18 Graphics Drivers to Your Homelab Hey folks, welcome back to Self-Hosted Tech. If you’ve spent any amount of time in the homelab community, you know that the conversation usually revolves around Proxmox, Ubuntu Server, Debian, or maybe a niche Arch Linux setup. But every once in a while, a curveball gets thrown our way that makes us reconsider our stack. Today is one of those days. ...

Cloudflare And OpenAI: Making AI Discovery Better For Everyone Hey folks, welcome back to Self-Hosted Tech. If you’ve been following the channel or the blog, you know we love cramming oversized GPUs into tiny mini-PCs, stacking 2U servers in our closets, and running our own local AI models. We do this because we love the hardware, but also because we want control over our data and our compute. ...

Show HN: LLMspeed – Feel How Fast a Local LLM Runs Before You Buy the Hardware If you’ve spent any time in the self-hosting and homelab communities lately, you already know that local AI is the hottest topic on the block. We all want to run our own LLMs (Large Language Models) for privacy, for learning, or just for the sheer joy of having a supercomputer humming away in our closet. But there’s a massive roadblock standing in the way of almost everyone: hardware uncertainty. ...

Claude Code & AI: A Game Changer for Reverse-Engineering Hardware on Linux If you’ve spent any time in the self-hosting or homelab communities, you already know the feeling. You score a fantastic deal on a piece of enterprise hardware, a niche IoT sensor, or a cheap Wi-Fi card off eBay. You excitedly plug it into your Linux server, run lsusb or lspci, and… nothing. The kernel doesn’t recognize it. A quick Google search reveals that the manufacturer abandoned driver development in 2015, and the only existing drivers are closed-source blobs compiled for Windows XP. ...

HP Elitebook 6 G1Q Powered By Snapdragon X1 Plus Sees Linux Patches If you’ve been hanging around the homelab, self-hosting, and local AI communities lately, you’ve probably noticed a quiet but massive shift happening in the hardware world. For years, we’ve been stuck in an x86 duopoly. Intel and AMD have served us well, but when it comes to power efficiency—especially for always-on, low-power self-hosted nodes or portable local AI rigs—ARM architecture has been sitting on the sidelines looking very tempting. ...