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Bob Beck (OpenBSD) on why vi should stay vi (2006)

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=115820462402673&w=2
1•birdculture•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Glimpsh – exploring gaze input inside the terminal

https://github.com/dchrty/glimpsh
1•dochrty•2m ago•0 comments

The Optima-l Situation: A deep dive into the classic humanist sans-serif

https://micahblachman.beehiiv.com/p/the-optima-l-situation
1•subdomain•2m ago•0 comments

Barn Owls Know When to Wait

https://blog.typeobject.com/posts/2026-barn-owls-know-when-to-wait/
1•fintler•3m ago•0 comments

Implementing TCP Echo Server in Rust [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOBZ_Xzuio
1•sheerluck•3m ago•0 comments

LicGen – Offline License Generator (CLI and Web UI)

1•tejavvo•6m ago•0 comments

Service Degradation in West US Region

https://azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status?gsid=5616bb85-f380-4a04-85ed-95674eec3d87&utm_source=...
2•_____k•6m ago•0 comments

The Janitor on Mars

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/10/26/the-janitor-on-mars
1•evo_9•8m ago•0 comments

Bringing Polars to .NET

https://github.com/ErrorLSC/Polars.NET
2•CurtHagenlocher•10m ago•0 comments

Adventures in Guix Packaging

https://nemin.hu/guix-packaging.html
1•todsacerdoti•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We had 20 Claude terminals open, so we built Orcha

1•buildingwdavid•11m ago•0 comments

Your Best Thinking Is Wasted on the Wrong Decisions

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-07-your-best-thinking-is-wasted-on-the-wrong-decis...
1•iand675•11m ago•0 comments

Warcraftcn/UI – UI component library inspired by classic Warcraft III aesthetics

https://www.warcraftcn.com/
1•vyrotek•12m ago•0 comments

Trump Vodka Becomes Available for Pre-Orders

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kirkogunrinde/2025/12/01/trump-vodka-becomes-available-for-pre-order...
1•stopbulying•14m ago•0 comments

Velocity of Money

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
1•gurjeet•16m ago•0 comments

Stop building automations. Start running your business

https://www.fluxtopus.com/automate-your-business
1•valboa•21m ago•1 comments

You can't QA your way to the frontier

https://www.scorecard.io/blog/you-cant-qa-your-way-to-the-frontier
1•gk1•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PalettePoint – AI color palette generator from text or images

https://palettepoint.com
1•latentio•22m ago•0 comments

Robust and Interactable World Models in Computer Vision [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4kkaGOozA
2•Anon84•26m ago•0 comments

Nestlé couldn't crack Japan's coffee market.Then they hired a child psychologist

https://twitter.com/BigBrainMkting/status/2019792335509541220
1•rmason•28m ago•1 comments

Notes for February 2-7

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/02/07/2000
2•rcarmo•29m ago•0 comments

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/
2•Willingham•36m ago•0 comments

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
2•shervinafshar•37m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•42m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
10•mooreds•43m ago•4 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

1•Buttons840•44m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

2•pinkmuffinere•45m ago•0 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815
1•walterbell•50m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9
1•PaulHoule•52m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremac...
3•saikatsg•52m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

"We have stratum zero at home"

https://ewpratten.com/blog/gps-timekeeping
7•ewpratten•1mo ago

Comments

ggm•1mo ago
It is probably just me, but I think calling GPS synced NTP instances stratum 0 was a mistake. Not a mistake of this author, a mistake of the community at large.

A rubidium clock you pace to the BPIM, thats stratum 0. A clock you sync to the GPS system, which itself is under very indirect management and has some very specific time drift issues to various forms of civil and scientific time... I am less sure is a stratum-0. You don't own the time source, you get to read it.

Mostly, the ones I have been involved in have being training a PPM signal off the GPS source, and have minor issues around the kernel timing to read the serial train. That only limits precision. You still have the usual issues with your hosts crystal synced clock, and I've read a bit of stuff which suggests RPI are not very good in that regard. And, USB is not a very good basis for regular, reliable paced reads. There are projects which expose the PPS on other lines in the GPIO pins, I don't know how well that works (or even, how it's achieved given the USB pinouts available)

I run an instance of Bert Huberts GPS tracking project with a ublox USB thing, and another instance of a newer UBLOX antenna, on a NUC doing chrony. In the past I ran a number of the RIPE NCC serial GPS cards in Dell servers.

ewpratten•1mo ago
I completely agree with you. In my opinion, using GPS as Stratum 0 feels like a cheat. I do hope to some day (definitely not any time soon) own an atomic clock of some kind though.

Regarding PPS, the L76B does this cheaty thing where it actually sends the PPS signal over UART. They provide a calculation to go from “Time of first byte” to a regular PPS signal on the receiving side.