documentary · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Guerrilla Public Service 2011
Richard Ankrom · 1 HN recommenders · 1 recommendation months
Recommended by 1 Hacker News commenters across 1 months (2018–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 15 other documentary videos tagged Transit, cities & urban planning, the mean is 1.6 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 1 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 1 distinct month; the peer average is 1.9 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 2018–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 10 minutes 0 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2011-08-05.
- Channel / speaker
- Richard Ankrom
- Verified runtime
- 10m 0s
- YouTube upload date
- 2011-08-05
- Hacker News mention years
- 2018–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other documentary videos in Transit, cities & urban planning. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guerrilla Public Service 2011Current video | 1 | 1 | 33% | — | 10m 0s | 2011-08-05 |
| The Insane Battle To Sabotage a New Apartment Building Explains San Francisco's Housing Crisisdocumentary · ReasonTV | 3 | 4 | 33% | No recorded overlap | 14m 44s | 2018-12-27 |
| The End of Suburbia - 52 minute documentary on peak oildocumentary · endofsuburbia | 3 | 5 | 86% | No recorded overlap | 51m 44s | 2006-10-27 |
| Vienna's Radical Idea? Affordable Housing For Alldocumentary · Bloomberg Originals | 3 | 4 | 36% | No recorded overlap | 13m 26s | 2021-09-17 |
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 “Engineer restores pay phones for free public use”. Its short rationale: Documentary on Ankrom's freeway exit sign fix that stayed for years.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “How to Paint a Crosswalk”. Its short rationale: Video of Ankrom installing his own freeway exit sign.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Portland Anarchist Road Care Fixes Potholes Anonymously (2017)”. Its short rationale: Ankrom installed an I-5 exit sign where drivers missed the exit.