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329 points zdkaster | 3 comments | 28 Aug 25 04:37 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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prmoustache ◴[28 Aug 25 06:29 UTC] No.45049089[source]▶
Is "brownout" a common or standard term in the industry? First time I see it.
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znpy ◴[28 Aug 25 06:42 UTC] No.45049158[source]▶
Yes. Going from green to red is called “browning out”.
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mattkrause ◴[28 Aug 25 06:51 UTC] No.45049212[source]▶
Is that the origin?

I thought it was an analogy to the electrical problem: flickering lights due to high demand.

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1. wafflemaker ◴[28 Aug 25 08:23 UTC] No.45049779[source]▶
Don't know the origin, but with no technical background past using Linux, I only ever heard of brownouts in contexts of failing (often 3rd world) electrical infrastructure. Mostly Africa and South America (don't mean to offend anybody living there, I know they're vast continents with many rich/infrastructure-stable countries too).
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2. lstodd ◴[28 Aug 25 09:38 UTC] No.45050224[source]▶
Origin is the electrical grid overload which caused incandescent lights to literally "brown out", as has been mentioned here.

Later is was coopted to mean any problems with power supply not including outright drop to zero-zero/disconnections. cf microcontroller brown-out handling, also mentioned above.

Then later it seems it was generalized to mean sort-of-non-terminal problem with supply of most anything.

3. lagniappe ◴[28 Aug 25 14:55 UTC] No.45052969[source]▶
Very odd to call it a 3rd world phenomenon when California calls it a normal day.