Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs

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A site called MiniPCs.zip charts thousands of Mini PCs by benchmark and reveals the Pareto frontier to help users get the most compute per dollar, using Gemini to extract specs from listings.

The overall idea is to chart out the thousands of Mini PCs by benchmark and reveal the Pareto Front so you can get the most Compute per Dollar. Definitely a labor of love as I have a number of Mini PCs for my &quot;homelab&quot; (TrueNAS, piHole, Plex, basic stuff). It uses Gemini to extract specs from listings (since they&#x27;re not often strongly categorized).<p>Quick blog post here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;luke.zip&#x2F;posts&#x2F;pareto-pcs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;luke.zip&#x2F;posts&#x2F;pareto-pcs&#x2F;</a>
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