944K views · Aug 31, 2023 · 27:20 · 3 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2023–2025
Scott Manley covers how GPS works and how civilian accuracy went from a planned 100 meters to about one meter. He explains the technology and the removal of restrictions that made this possible.
Why Hacker News points people here: Recommended as a solid history and explanation of GPS, especially when GPS outages or accuracy come up.
“Scott Manley has a nice video covering the history of GPS and how it works, well worth a watch”HN comment, 2024
“Scott Manley has a nice video covering the history of GPS and how it works, well worth a watch”
History of GPS and how it works.
The sibling response here covers all of the points I would say. Scott Manley has a nice video covering the history of GPS and how it works, well worth a watch this video It's not as simple as you think.
“Scott Manley did a review of how GPS actually performed better than initially designed”
How GPS performed better than initially designed.
For a video form of this topic, Scott Manley did a review of how GPS actually performed better than initially designed: this video
“expecting to see a certain Scott Manley video”
The deeper Scott Manley GPS video the commenter expected to find.
Don't mean to be rude, but your deep dives could be deeper. I clicked on 'How GPS works' expecting to see a certain Scott Manley video [0] there. Instead, it's 10 shorts I'd put firmly at the 'like n subscribe' end of the scale. Think I'll stick to my own curated list of creators for now. [0] this video
