demo · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
AK47 (AKM): Mud Test
InRangeTV · 1 HN recommenders · 1 recommendation months
Recommended by 1 Hacker News commenters across 1 months (2019–2024).
SignalTube analysis
Among 11 other demo videos tagged Military history & warfare, the mean is 0.5 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 1 distinct HN recommenders, about 2.2× that mean. Recommendations span 1 distinct month; the peer average is 0.5 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
14% of its 7 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2019–2024; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 7 minutes 45 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2015-12-31.
- Channel / speaker
- InRangeTV
- Verified runtime
- 7m 45s
- YouTube upload date
- 2015-12-31
- Hacker News mention years
- 2019–2024
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other demo videos in Military history & warfare. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AK47 (AKM): Mud TestCurrent video | 1 | 1 | 14% | — | 7m 45s | 2015-12-31 |
| Minuteman III attacks Kwajaleindemo · Eureka | 2 | 2 | 67% | No recorded overlap | 7m 37s | 2008-12-12 |
| Missile defense multiple kill vehicle hover testdemo · theworacle | 1 | 1 | 17% | No recorded overlap | 1m 36s | 2008-12-08 |
| AR15: Mud Testdemo · InRangeTV | 1 | 1 | 14% | 1 (100%) | 5m 3s | 2016-01-07 |
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 “More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD”. Its short rationale: Shows AK mud-resistance advantage is overstated.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in a Hacker News discussion. Its short rationale: Mud test of the AKM compared with the AR-15.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Why did the F-14 Tomcat retire decades before its peers? (2021)”. Its short rationale: Evidence that AK/M16 reliability gap is overstated.