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Primitive Technology: Stone Axe (celt)
Primitive Technology · 1 HN recommenders · 1 recommendation months
Recommended by 1 Hacker News commenters across 1 months (2019–2023).
SignalTube analysis
Among 15 other demo videos tagged Home, DIY & practical skills, the mean is 2.3 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 1 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 1 distinct month; the peer average is 2.3 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
33% of its 3 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2019–2023; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 4 minutes 23 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2015-05-22.
- Channel / speaker
- Primitive Technology
- Verified runtime
- 4m 23s
- YouTube upload date
- 2015-05-22
- Hacker News mention years
- 2019–2023
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other demo videos in Home, DIY & practical skills. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primitive Technology: Stone Axe (celt)Current video | 1 | 1 | 33% | — | 4m 23s | 2015-05-22 |
| Building a realistic artificial sun (for dark winter days)demo · DIY Perks | 9 | 8 | 45% | No recorded overlap | 19m 45s | 2020-10-31 |
| Best fan placement to move air through the housedemo · Matthias random stuff | 4 | 4 | 80% | No recorded overlap | 6m 28s | 2021-06-30 |
| Mosquito trap DIY 8,000 mosquito kill reduce ZIKA DENGUE MALARIA MaxxAir Fan CO2demo · GREENPOWERSCIENCE | 4 | 4 | 80% | No recorded overlap | 6m 12s | 2017-07-07 |
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 “My Search for the Origins of Clothing”. Its short rationale: Shows hafting a stone axe head by friction fit instead of twine.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “Hafting an Axe: DIY”. Its short rationale: Making a stone axe with low tech methods, authentically and without cuts.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Emergent Tool Use from Multi-Agent Interaction”. Its short rationale: Example of real tool use with enormous state space.