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GPS relies on very very accurate timing. I would wager that the timing side of GPS is used more than the positioning side - but I have no way of confirming that.

Accurate timing is needed for banks accepting/sending payments (not just £5 for the window cleaner - more billions flowing every day).

Re:DeepSeek down for API/app and web on Monday September 14, 2026 @03:48PM (#49702878)
I hate posting downdetector links, but when companies don't post actual outages on their status page this is all I can do.

I can only assume acknowledging a service being down may hurt them financially so the service monitors are manually changed.

No. Posts are only editable for a small window of time.
Via nitter: https://xcancel.com/JustinGorya/status/2097287080128708930

Looks like the new model can be used if summoned via the API but the API won't list it.

I swear I put that at the start of the post. Must've managed to miss it when copy and pasting!

DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro

DSeek plans to officially release the V4.1 Flash model around September 10, 2026 (Beijing Time). After extensive internal and external testing, V4.1 Flash has comprehensively surpassed V4 Pro across all key metrics, including performance, cost, speed, and task completion time. In keeping with our commitment to user responsibility, following the official launch of V4.1 Flash and prior to the...

( Read More... | 219 comments | 45 points | on HN )
Honestly. This with Paperless-NGX might be game changing if both pointed to the same folder.
That's cool. Yours comes up as stars (*). Must be a HN thing.
Re:Hotmail/MS new spam filtering causing issues for ESP's on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @01:35PM (#47155707)
Microsoft's new spam filtering is affecting mail deliverability from a number of email service providers. MX Route is recommended here often enough that these issues may crop up for people here
Re:Never Buy A .online Domain on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @08:55AM (#47151483)
Hot Take: the proactive action of the registrar here is probably more beneficial than the number of false positives captured. If the registrar is aware that Google is hot on blocking potentially harmful sites, it's right that they take action expeditiously.

The bigger problem is the unbanning - for which there should be a better system, probably that should take the form of the registrar having a short grace period to aid in the Google stuff (DNS verification etc.) with additional checks by the registrar to make sure it's not being used for spam/malicious content.

The other point being why was Google banning you so quickly? This is the opaque part. Was the site reported? Was there some URL hijinks? That's the thing you'll probably never find out.

Re:Epic Rap Battles – Bill Gates vs Steve Jobs (2012) on Monday February 16, 2026 @01:51AM (#47031697)
This popped up on my Watch Again part of YT. I figured it may have been a few years since folk seen it and a little but if humour is never s bad thing for a Monday morning.
Think you've inadvertently found a way to provide extra tests for mobile devices.

The Crime and Punishment one consistently crashes Brave mobile for me. I assume it's the length of the URL - and seen another commentator say the same for chrome mobile (sure they both use the same codebase so likely an upstream issue).

Re:Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @03:54AM (#44885713)
They didn't block it. The site owners have chosen to not show the site to UK users for Legal Reasons.
Re:Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @03:34AM (#44885604)
Fully understand the reasons for the site - and the title on HN is shutdowns and site blocks - but the site itself displays self-enforcinging sites and shows them as potential government blocks.

There are blocked sites but you have to look for them in different sections of the site.

One site shown at the start of the other pages, adult friend finder is showing as blocked, however I can access it from my UK provider so honestly not sure what value this site brings (yet) apart from highlighting those that have a self-enforced blackout due to "451 Legal Reasons".

I'm on mobile so difficult to copy and paste - but that site was the top of an alphabetical list after I made my way past a few VPNs.

Re:Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email on Monday January 27, 2025 @09:19AM (#42841378)
I'm genuinely surprised no one has mentioned mxroute[1]. Thier pricing normally is pretty decent, but they keep the BF deals going pretty much all year [2].

I've been using them for 6 years with no issues. I use it now with all my domains and never have any deliverability issues.

The owner (Jar - one person shop again) is passionate about their email reputation for deliverability and is active on both lowendtalk and the dedicated sub Reddit.

I ended up comparing purleymail and mxroute - tested mxroute and stayed with them.

[1] https://mxroute.com/ [2] https://mxroute.blackfriday/

Re:Original Pirate Material on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @07:42AM (#39904605)
The lyrics are so culturally appropriate to that time that anyone listening now wouldn't probably get it.

The same with Futuristic Sex Robotz with the Hotel Coral Essex album - some of those songs on there are so pinpointed in time that they just remind me of the computers and using them.

Re:The Death of Free Shipping on Sunday February 18, 2024 @12:39PM (#39421121)
I run a small online store for decal’s for the geek market. When I say small - I mean I regularly only have 4 items listed. Think HANKA Robotics, TARS and the like.

I keep my costs to the bare minimum. I started it because I wanted decals no one else was making. I cannot justify feee shipping.

In the UK I eat the cost as it is about £1 to ship UK wide. Posting to the US is now around £7. I need to send tracked thanks to the selling platform.

It honestly pains me to have to charge shipping - but I could’t do it any other way. I can only imagine the costs that are associated with this for bigger outfits. Heck. Even Amazon has a logistics company now (but I suppose that’s where the Prime premium comes in!)

Re:Virtual Computer Museum – VNC into Archaic Windows Systems on Thursday January 11, 2024 @12:09PM (#38955102)
The hate came from it being pre installed on massively underpowered computers. The majority of users came to vista with a new PC and it just ruined the experience.

I still remember trying to troubleshoot a minor issue and it took half a day just because of the performance on this new PC.

Re:Where Have All the Websites Gone? on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @04:03AM (#38923887)
I think that as the author notes, we have gone. And I think it’s because we grew up. We don’t have the spare time like we used to, which, inevitably means we don’t access same sites, depriving them of visitors and relevant revenue.

We’ve gone.

Re:Traffic collisions including cyclists in London 2022 on Thursday November 09, 2023 @06:06AM (#38203527)
*reported collisions. There will no doubt be a lot more minor bumps that haven’t been reported to one of the relevant agencies.
Re:About Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library on Sunday May 28, 2023 @05:52AM (#36102601)
It’s comments like this where I wish I wasn’t so much of a lurker to get the karma required to downvote you.

These are age appropriate books being sent to families of all incomes to promote good education. Let people have nice things.

Re:Setting the clock ahead to see what breaks on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @03:28AM (#34500999)
I’m curious as a hobby programmer - how would these issues be rectified? Hope that the source code is available to add in new defines for 64bit time? Patch existing libraries after stracing existing programs without source code? Might need to take a deep dive into C for 2038!

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