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Dark Matter: The Situation has Changed
Sabine Hossenfelder · 2 HN recommenders · 2 recommendation months
Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 months (2021–2023).
SignalTube analysis
Among 72 other explainer videos tagged Cosmology & astrophysics, the mean is 2.6 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 2 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 2 distinct months; the peer average is 2.4 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
50% of its 4 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2021–2023; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 11 minutes 50 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2021-05-01.
- Channel / speaker
- Sabine Hossenfelder
- Verified runtime
- 11m 50s
- YouTube upload date
- 2021-05-01
- Hacker News mention years
- 2021–2023
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Cosmology & astrophysics. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dark Matter: The Situation has ChangedCurrent video | 2 | 2 | 50% | — | 11m 50s | 2021-05-01 |
| The Solar Gravitational Lens will Map Exoplanets. Seriously.explainer · Launch Pad Astronomy | 10 | 9 | 65% | No recorded overlap | 23m 32s | 2020-07-18 |
| A new way to visualize General Relativityexplainer · ScienceClic English | 8 | 6 | 89% | No recorded overlap | 11m 33s | 2020-09-03 |
| How to Understand What Black Holes Look Likeexplainer · Veritasium | 8 | 4 | 80% | No recorded overlap | 9m 19s | 2019-04-09 |
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 recommendation in “Dark energy from supermassive black holes? Physicists spar over radical idea”. Its short rationale: Accessible history of dark matter theories.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Four years on, new experiment sees no sign of ‘cosmic dawn’”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Astronomers have created the largest ever map of dark matter”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.