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White House will dump $700M of public funds into costly, unreliable coal again

https://electrek.co/2026/06/04/white-house-will-dump-700m-of-public-funds-into-costly-unreliable-coal-again/
22•Bender•2h ago

Comments

866-RON-0-FEZ•1h ago
Here's a non-smug, non-flamebait source:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/climate/trump-coal-plants...

Havoc•1h ago
Another whopper of an idea from the trump administration

Next up - lead back in petrol to lower IQs

lanstin•1h ago
You joke maybe but I just read an article that people in the ER are refusing tetanus shots.
trumpdong•1h ago
Tetanus isn't contagious, right? Natural selection.
HDBaseT•1h ago
I don't see exactly how coal is "unreliable".

I've had more power outages with the switching to green energy production than I ever had whilst coal was king.

The 'coal is unreliable' narrative comes from the fact our power stations are 50 years old. Not that the resource or the method to extract energy out of it is unreliable.

866-RON-0-FEZ•1h ago
Solar is reliable.

60% of the time it works every time.

vineyardmike•1h ago
Well the article links to a source of the unreliable claim. You read the article right?

The coal is unreliable narrative has existed for many years because coal plants break down and have mechanical issues at higher rates than other sources, renewable and otherwise. Coal is less reliable than natural gas and oil based power, nuclear, to say nothing of the comparison to solar, which obviously doesn’t need mechanical repairs. The method of converting coal to power is actually less reliable because it’s more mechanically intense, and has more moving parts which makes it more fragile and repair prone.

If you google this, you’ll find that statistically across coal plants, they’ve historically had a reliability of 70-90% of target capacity due to mechanical issues.

Kirby64•1h ago
> I've had more power outages with the switching to green energy production than I ever had whilst coal was king.

Bit of a correlation not causation, no? Rise of renewable energy has also been during the rise of energy usage overall and suffering overall infrastructure. Not only are power stations old, but many of the transmissions line are too, which is probably going to have a bigger impact on power outages than power plant issues.

morninglight•32m ago
The Stanley Steamer runs very reliably on coal, wood or even paper ballots!

Do transformers need three projections? Systematic study of QKV variants

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04032
77•Anon84•2h ago•10 comments

Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery

https://github.com/anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness
254•binyu•5h ago•85 comments

Meta enables adb on deprecated Portal devices

https://fb.watch/HxPu0fSyeH/
18•jenders•36m ago•5 comments

VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

https://blog.cloudflare.com/voidzero-joins-cloudflare/
567•coloneltcb•12h ago•256 comments

Reverse-Engineered Userspace Driver for Asus ZenVision Lid OLED on Linux"

https://github.com/tarpediem/zenvision-linux
14•berlianta•2d ago•1 comments

When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement
324•meetpateltech•9h ago•423 comments

Branchless Quicksort faster than std:sort and pdqsort with C and C++ API

https://tiki.li/blog/blqsort
82•birdculture•2d ago•8 comments

Queen bees emerge from special wax chambers

https://cen.acs.org/materials/biobased-materials/queen-bees-special-wax/104/web/2026/06
45•gmays•3h ago•4 comments

I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2026/05/27/revolutionize-schooling/
48•andrewstuart•2d ago•70 comments

Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm
501•mooreds•14h ago•190 comments

Alibaba/Open-Code-Review

https://github.com/alibaba/open-code-review
9•geoffbp•1h ago•0 comments

Retro-Tech Parenting

https://havenweb.org/2026/05/28/retro-tech.html
242•mawise•9h ago•167 comments

KVarN: Native vLLM backend for KV-cache quantization by Huawei

https://github.com/huawei-csl/KVarN
114•theanonymousone•10h ago•12 comments

IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/ipv6-zones-go-url/
80•xena•3h ago•69 comments

Latent Agents: A Post-Training Procedure for Internalized Multi-Agent Debate

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24881
9•PaulHoule•2h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS

https://www.mercek.dev/
21•utibeumanah•4h ago•4 comments

Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager

https://castor.web.cern.ch/content/home.html
42•naves•5h ago•18 comments

WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access

https://www.boxofcables.dev/wsl2-per-device-swiotlb-pools-for-virtiofs-and-virtioproxy/
56•haydenbarnes•5h ago•42 comments

Samurai City

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/samurai-city/
96•zdw•2d ago•14 comments

JLink JTAG Access on the Pinecil

https://danielmangum.com/posts/jlink-jtag-pinecil/
37•hasheddan•2d ago•7 comments

Making Debian or Fedora persistent live images

https://sigwait.org/~alex/blog/2026/05/28/smdBC8.html
61•henry_flower•3d ago•6 comments

External Clock Generation on RTX 50 Series

https://www.xtremesystems.us/post/external-clock-generation-on-rtx-50-series
10•mfro•1d ago•2 comments

Zettascale (YC S24) Is Hiring Founding FPGA Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zettascale/jobs/O9S1vqO-founding-engineer-fpga-rtl-asic-arc...
1•el_al•8h ago

Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

https://www.buchodi.com/meta-glasses-facial-recognition/
222•buchodi•5h ago•200 comments

Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites

https://uruky.com/?il=en
206•BrunoBernardino•16h ago•194 comments

Sum-product, unit distances, and number fields

https://www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/blog:6
55•robinhouston•3d ago•13 comments

Show HN: Hitoku Draft – Context aware local assistant

https://hitoku.me/draft/
13•lostathome•7h ago•1 comments

Gaussian Point Splatting

https://momentsingraphics.de/Siggraph2026.html
175•ibobev•14h ago•65 comments

Mornings and nights no longer exist at 47C: A day in the hottest place in India

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmp0krp98ro
119•mellosouls•2d ago•85 comments

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_Corps_of_Engineers_Bay_Model
208•tosh•2d ago•53 comments