comedy · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
"Turbo Encabulator" the Original
Dave Rondot · 4 HN recommenders · 4 recommendation months
Recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 4 months (2016–2026).
SignalTube analysis
Among 281 other comedy videos tagged Satire & parody, the mean is 0.6 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 4 distinct HN recommenders, about 6.4× that mean. Recommendations span 4 distinct months; the peer average is 0.6 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
22% of its 18 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2016–2026; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 1 minutes 50 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2010-04-09.
- Channel / speaker
- Dave Rondot
- Verified runtime
- 1m 50s
- YouTube upload date
- 2010-04-09
- Hacker News mention years
- 2016–2026
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other comedy videos in Satire & parody. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Turbo Encabulator" the OriginalCurrent video | 4 | 4 | 22% | — | 1m 50s | 2010-04-09 |
| The Loving Trapcomedy · Ben Woodhams | 15 | 11 | 75% | No recorded overlap | 2m 58s | 2011-06-17 |
| Erlang The Movie II: The Sequelcomedy · gar1t | 6 | 6 | 40% | No recorded overlap | 9m 55s | 2013-03-22 |
| Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning]comedy · suckerpinch | 5 | 4 | 71% | No recorded overlap | 24m 13s | 2021-04-01 |
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.
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