talk · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Literate Programming in the Large
Next Day Video · 3 HN recommenders · 4 recommendation months
Recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 4 months (2014–2024).
SignalTube analysis
Among 94 other talk videos tagged Software practice, open source & careers, the mean is 3.3 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 3 distinct HN recommenders, close to that mean. Recommendations span 4 distinct months; the peer average is 3.3 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
63% of its 8 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2014–2024; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 35 minutes 59 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2013-06-27.
- Channel / speaker
- Next Day Video
- Verified runtime
- 35m 59s
- YouTube upload date
- 2013-06-27
- Hacker News mention years
- 2014–2024
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other talk videos in Software practice, open source & careers. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Literate Programming in the LargeCurrent video | 3 | 4 | 63% | — | 35m 59s | 2013-06-27 |
| Bret Victor The Future of Programmingtalk · Joey Reid | 12 | 11 | 60% | No recorded overlap | 32m 56s | 2013-07-31 |
| Using Python to Code by Voicetalk · Next Day Video | 12 | 9 | 60% | No recorded overlap | 28m 17s | 2013-03-21 |
| 🚀 TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong (Ian Cooper)talk · DevTernity Conference | 11 | 11 | 80% | No recorded overlap | 63m 55s | 2017-12-20 |
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 “Axiom – A scientific computation system”. Its short rationale: Author discussing his Axiom work and its structure.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (2014)”. Its short rationale: Author's own talk on literate programming.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Show HN: Legion, an as-simple-as-possible blockchain server written in Haskell”. Its short rationale: Talk on writing programs as readable books.