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White House seeks emergency power auction for largest US electric grid

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/white-house-seeks-emergency-power-auction-largest-us-electric-grid-2026-01-16/
10•bikenaga•1h ago

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hermanzegerman•1h ago
It's funny how politicians across the world can suddenly fix things when an election is coming up and they fear losing it
cyanydeez•53m ago
huh? 1 paragraph in and this is about data centers being a problem.

This is about "oh, problems are solved when there's a bunch of lobbiests paid to solve it"

londons_explore•43m ago
So loads of new demand is pushhing the price sky high....

And the fix is to... Cap the price?

Did nobody do economics 101?

FCC Poised to Exempt Amateurs from Foreign Adversary Reporting Requirements

https://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-poised-to-exempt-amateurs-from-foreign-adversary-reporting-requirem...
1•7402•40s ago•0 comments

FTC Finalizes Order Banning GM from Sharing Driver Data

https://www.pcmag.com/news/ftc-finalizes-order-banning-gm-from-sharing-driver-data?test_uuid=04Ip...
3•CGMthrowaway•4m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Browser extension vs. native app for structured form filling?

1•livrasand•5m ago•0 comments

IETF@40

https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-40/
1•sohkamyung•8m ago•0 comments

Re: Mix: open-source repairable blender

https://github.com/openfunkHQ/reMix
1•rishikeshs•9m ago•0 comments

I thought Grammarly was essential. It wasn't

https://www.makeuseof.com/stopped-paying-for-grammarly-once-found-free-open-source-alternative/
1•chilipepperhott•18m ago•0 comments

I have settled on XChaCha20+Blake3 as the AE suite of choice for my projects

https://mccarty.io/chacha20-blake3/
2•enz•23m ago•0 comments

For profit university offers scholarship to RuneScape skill cape recipients

https://usv.edu/max-achievement-scholarship
1•rickcarlino•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Neurop Forge: Live Demo /Real AI Action

https://neurop-forge.onrender.com/demo/google
1•LBWasserman•24m ago•0 comments

"Freedom of Speech" Exists – But "Freedom of Reach" Is a Black Box

1•Ayanonymous•24m ago•1 comments

LimX COSA – Agentic OS for Humanoid Robots (YouTube)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hIqs3TBb5g
2•_medihack_•25m ago•0 comments

Do Cloudflare's Lava Lamps Do Anything?

https://notnotp.com/notes/do-cloudflares-lava-lamps-actually-do-anything/
2•enz•25m ago•1 comments

Emergent topological semimetal from quantum criticality

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-03135-w
1•bryanrasmussen•26m ago•0 comments

Eddy Goldfarb – The Man Who Invented More Than 800 Iconic Toys [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sKKan_Q9VU
1•embedding-shape•30m ago•0 comments

US moves to strip sovereign wealth investors of US tax perks

https://www.ft.com/content/de1968ab-3db3-4aa6-8489-35e7cdb81be7
4•alephnerd•31m ago•3 comments

Fix the two-party system with proportional representation

https://agrarianparty.org/platform/peoples-act
4•tedkimble•32m ago•1 comments

Before I forget how I got here

https://richhaase.com/blog/2026-01-14-before-i-forget-how-i-got-here/
1•richhhh•33m ago•1 comments

FAA warns on Central, South American flights over potential military actions

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/faa-issues-warnings-airlines-central-south-american-flight...
5•toomuchtodo•36m ago•2 comments

AT&T collapse:A single typo that shut down the US long-distance network

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_AT%26T_network_switching_system_collapse
2•xthe•38m ago•1 comments

Debian gnome team plans to kill GTK2

https://ludditus.com/2026/01/15/debian-has-its-retards-too-they-plan-to-kill-gtk2/
2•jandeboevrie•41m ago•0 comments

Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation

https://www.mintlify.com/blog/install-md-standard-for-llm-executable-installation
8•npmipg•43m ago•12 comments

Show HN: ExprTk High-Performance C++ Math Expression Parser Evaluation Engine

https://www.partow.net/programming/exprtk/index.html
3•exprtk•44m ago•0 comments

What happens to cities when the jobs leave?

https://deadneurons.substack.com/p/what-happens-to-cities-when-the-jobs
1•nr378•45m ago•0 comments

Drawbot: Let's hack something cute (2025)

https://www.atredis.com/blog/2025/9/30/drawbot-lets-hack-something-cute
11•notmine1337•45m ago•4 comments

Show HN: Polymcp Implements Ollama for Local and Cloud Model Execution

2•justvugg•46m ago•0 comments

Custom firmware for x4 eInk device

https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader
1•xteink•47m ago•0 comments

Radithor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor
2•radeeyate•49m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Paintracker.ca, a PWA pain tracker that keeps data on device by default

https://www.paintracker.ca/
1•crisiscore_sys•50m ago•1 comments

Iran, 200 hours of a nationwide internet and telecommunications blackout

https://www.dw.com/en/iran-protests-internet-communication-blackout-social-media/a-75487555
3•us321•52m ago•0 comments

OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/openai-to-test-ads-in-chatgpt-as-it-burns-...
4•coloneltcb•54m ago•1 comments