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Douglas Crockford: The JSON Saga
YUI Library · 2 HN recommenders · 2 recommendation months
Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 months (2012–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 101 other talk videos tagged Web development, the mean is 3.2 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 2 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 2 distinct months; the peer average is 3.1 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
14% of its 14 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2012–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 49 minutes 26 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2011-08-28.
- Channel / speaker
- YUI Library
- Verified runtime
- 49m 26s
- YouTube upload date
- 2011-08-28
- Hacker News mention years
- 2012–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other talk videos in Web development. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Douglas Crockford: The JSON SagaCurrent video | 2 | 2 | 14% | — | 49m 26s | 2011-08-28 |
| What the heck is the event loop anyway? | Philip Roberts | JSConf EUtalk · JSConf | 16 | 14 | 80% | No recorded overlap | 26m 53s | 2014-10-09 |
| Rich Harris - Rethinking reactivitytalk · You Gotta Love Frontend | 15 | 13 | 75% | No recorded overlap | 36m 45s | 2019-04-22 |
| Dan Abramov - Live React: Hot Reloading with Time Travel at react-europe 2015talk · ReactEurope | 12 | 8 | 65% | No recorded overlap | 30m 41s | 2015-07-05 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Mobygratis – Free Moby music to empower your creative projects”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “What are the enduring innovations of Lisp? (2022)”. Its short rationale: Crockford mentions Rebol and others as influences on JSON.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Can you stop your open-source project from being used for evil?”. Its short rationale: Crockford's anecdote on granting IBM permission to use JSLint for evil.