It's really just decentralized cloud computing. Where people used to make money from mining and trading crypto, some people realize they could make money by selling the computing resources for well, computing. It can match popular tools like AWS in price and latency. I would not vouch for it yet, but it's interesting, reminds me of the GPT-2 era.

But it's still in the Innovation stage of the innovation curve, while HN lies in the early majority group.

I'd say Show HN actually lies on the shifting point from early adopter to early majority and that's where the hype sweet spot is at.