explainer · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
This Video Has 77,321,815 Views
Tom Scott · 2 HN recommenders · 1 recommendation months
Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 1 months (2020–2026).
SignalTube analysis
Among 19 other explainer videos tagged Tech industry & business models, the mean is 2.7 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 2 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 1 distinct month; the peer average is 2.7 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
20% of its 10 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2020–2026; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. A verified runtime is not present in the current metadata snapshot. A verified YouTube publication date is not present in the current metadata snapshot.
- Channel / speaker
- Tom Scott
- Verified runtime
- Not verified in the current YouTube metadata
- YouTube upload date
- Not verified
- Hacker News mention years
- 2020–2026
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Tech industry & business models. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This Video Has 77,321,815 ViewsCurrent video | 2 | 1 | 20% | — | Not verified in the current YouTube metadata | Not verified |
| YouTube's copyright system isn't broken. The world's is.explainer · Tom Scott | 13 | 10 | 65% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| How Airlines Quietly Became Banksexplainer · Wendover Productions | 5 | 3 | 38% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| This is why we can't have nice thingsexplainer · Veritasium | 4 | 4 | 40% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
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 “There Are No Instances in ATProto”. Its short rationale: Open APIs get closed as platforms lock in users.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Show HN: Mashups – Resurrecting Yahoo Pipes, my side project”. Its short rationale: Mentions Yahoo Pipes.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes”. Its short rationale: Tom Scott video about programming and APIs.