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GraphQL: The Documentary
CultRepo · 2 HN recommenders · 2 recommendation months
Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 months (2019–2022).
SignalTube analysis
Among 30 other documentary videos tagged Tech company stories & documentaries, the mean is 2.9 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 2 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 2 distinct months; the peer average is 2.7 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
40% of its 5 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2019–2022; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 27 minutes 58 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2019-06-24.
- Channel / speaker
- CultRepo
- Verified runtime
- 27m 58s
- YouTube upload date
- 2019-06-24
- Hacker News mention years
- 2019–2022
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The comparison cohort uses other documentary videos in Tech company stories & documentaries. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GraphQL: The DocumentaryCurrent video | 2 | 2 | 40% | — | 27m 58s | 2019-06-24 |
| Micro Men - 720p (2009)documentary · gimpymoo | 15 | 14 | 75% | No recorded overlap | 84m 13s | 2013-07-28 |
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| Disney's FastPass: A Complicated Historydocumentary · Defunctland | 7 | 4 | 88% | No recorded overlap | 103m 0s | 2021-11-21 |
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 “GraphQL Is a Trap?”. Its short rationale: Developers describe problems that motivated GraphQL.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “GraphQL Query Generator”. Its short rationale: Shows problems GraphQL's creators solved, to judge fit.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Ask HN: Why GraphQL APIs but no Datalog APIs?”. Its short rationale: Documentary on creators moving from REST to GraphQL.