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    How GPS Works, And How It Got Better Than The Designers Ever Imagined

    Scott Manley

    3 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2023–2025

    YouTube

    27:20 · 943K views · Aug 31, 2023

    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.

    Recommended as a solid history and explanation of GPS, especially when GPS outages or accuracy come up.

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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @rezonantFeb 2024· in “Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users”

      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.

      Strongly recommendsView on HN
    2. @nancyminusoneJun 2025· in “Show HN: I Built a Site That Curates Weird YouTube Rabbit Holes Daily”

      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

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    3. @franky47Sep 2023· in “Official U.S. government information about the Global Positioning System (GPS)”

      For a video form of this topic, Scott Manley did a review of how GPS actually performed better than initially designed: this video

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