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Language & linguistics is a topic archive of videos linked in Hacker News comments. This snapshot contains 83 videos and 468 labeled comments across 2008–2026. That is an average of 5.6 linked comments per video. The summed 154 recommender entries are counted per video, so one HN user can appear in more than one topic video.
This page answers “what surfaced more recently?”: videos are sorted by their latest Hacker News mention year. For a different question—“which talks have the most distinct recommenders?”—use the topic's Best Talks list when at least 20 talks are available. This topic has 6 cataloged talks. Its average per-video recommender count is 1.9; neither this metric nor recency represents YouTube views or a quality rating.
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Tom Scott

Ecolinguist

Team Coco

dubeye08

helpmefindparents

That Japanese Man Yuta

cagin

NativLang

suckerpinch

Vox

Useless Duck Company

jan Misali

Tom Scott

CGP Grey

Studio C

rylxyc

Royal Society of Arts

thepostarchive

Library of Alexandria

aaron pryor

Tarek Hamza

Sara Forsberg

That Japanese Man Yuta

BBC

TEDx Talks

WIRED

2birdsswimming

TEDx Talks

Talks at Google

Brian and Karl

gsmokeyjoe

Eivind Solfjell

Tom Scott

The Language & Life Project

TEDx Talks
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