Show HN: Computable – Buy, sell, and redeem GPU for the exact weeks you want

yuansong98 36 points 22 comments July 21, 2026
www.getcomputable.com · View on Hacker News

Hey we are Computable. We spent years building trading infrastructure at Jump Trading and Coinbase. From that point of view, compute looks like energy markets before 2000: everything trades through private bilateral leases, there’s no visible price, and nothing can be resold. The same H100 rents at a 2x spread depending on who’s asking, and once you sign a 24-month lease, it can never change hands. So we built a market for GPU nodes, sold by the calendar week. Here are three things you can do on it that you can’t do anywhere else: - Buy exactly the weeks you need. Three nodes for the last two weeks of October means you pay for those two weeks and walk away when the run is done. You don't have to commit to 6-24 months, and there's no flexibility premium. - Sell back what you don’t use. If your plans change, unused weeks turn back into cash: we keep a market quote posted on every position, so there’s always a price to hit. - Buy (or sell) the future. Lock January in July at a price you set, so the cost of a future run is known before another 40% H100 rate jump makes it not. The first auction is live now at https://market.getcomputable.com : a block of nodes, August through the end of January. Bidding closes July 31. The bids are sealed. You bid how many nodes, which weeks, and your price. Every clearing price gets published after settlement, because nobody knows what a GPU week is worth and we want the prints to exist in public. Happy to go deep in the comments on anything, including the clearing mechanism, which is a packing problem and was fun to design!

Discussion Highlights (7 comments)

paigexu522

Interesting approach. How do you ensure liquidity if buyers and sellers want different weeks? Is there a market maker, or is everything matched through the auction?

hazard

Didn't sfcompute launch with a vision of something like this and then cancel it because CFTC decided it was running an unregulated futures exchange? How are you getting around regulatory issues like this?

Lethalman

I need to login to see anything. I walk away.

aubreyzhang

curious how you'd keep all parties winning at once on the platform (supply&demand& traders maybe?) Are you planning to make money on float / spread / flat fee?

Retr0id

How do you prevent sellers from fraudulently selling future capacity they don't actually have?

zuzululu

how do you deal with data security

flowerbreeze

All the verifications without being able to see what it even does fully feels like pretty a big barrier, even more so than being login gated. Gives it a big banking/gambling vibe too. Then again, I was only curious how it compares to other GPU rent options in general. Somebody going to bid on something right away might not care.

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