[publicola1990]

While this is is interesting, the "nobody's heard of" phrase is rather condescending and such phrases leave a bad taste in the mind.

[jen729w]

Hmm it's just a turn of phrase. I would bet you $100 that no more than 0.001% of the population have heard of BPS. I hadn't. That's functionally "nobody".

[jandrese]

The title is still clickbait given the reason nobody has heard of it is that it barely exists and is not useful yet.

Also, it smelled a bit like wishful thinking to assume the high precision clock would not be driven by GPS on real world deployments. I know some cell towers synchronize via PTP, but a great many others use GPS as their time source.

[geerlingguy]

For anyone who deploys GPS-based timing systems at scale, having more sources of precise time is a huge boon. (Some companies pay many millions for dark fiber just to have a redundant time source).

Holdover can only help so much, if there's a persistent jamming effort, it can wreak havoc on many time-critical systems.

[bmacho]

It's worse in every way than just omitting it. 'BPS is a GPS alternative' is better as a title, on HN at least

[Calwestjobs]

yes saying jeff geerling is the nobody who never heard of that thing is offensive to me. XD

[p_ing]

It's a curiosity gap headline; it's a lazy form of headline that insults the intelligence of the audience. It also extends into clickbait.

Poor form. Do better.