Rack Community releases first public version
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Rack Community releases its first public version 1.0.0, a single-machine self-hosted home AI lab. Its task runner uses admit.sh for memory admission control: a task is only admitted when max(used memory, declared total) + task peak ≤ LIMIT; rejected tasks exit with code 75 to explain the reason. Running it requires Linux, Node 24, and Python 3; all services listen only on 127.0.0.1, and it cannot be unlocked when RACK_TOKEN is not set. The release notes explicitly warn against exposing it directly to the internet as-is.
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- Hacker News AIRack Community: a self-hosted AI lab whose job runner won't overload the box
Rack Community is a self-hosted, single-box AI lab with live host gauges, a durable job runner that admits jobs only when their declared memory peaks fit under a limit, recipe-based job templates, a human-approved memory control plane (Somnus), and a team room (TalkBack) that AI agents can join. It ships no model or keys, works with Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, starts in dry-run, and binds to 127.0.0.1 with token-checked writes. Version 1.0.0 is the first public release under MIT.
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