documentary · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Chernobyl 3828
TeleconStudio · 2 HN recommenders · 3 recommendation months
Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 3 months (2014–2019).
SignalTube analysis
Among 4 other documentary videos tagged Nuclear power & fusion, the mean is 1.5 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 2 distinct HN recommenders, about 1.3× that mean. Recommendations span 3 distinct months; the peer average is 1.5 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
38% of its 8 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2014–2019; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 26 minutes 57 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2012-04-21.
- Channel / speaker
- TeleconStudio
- Verified runtime
- 26m 57s
- YouTube upload date
- 2012-04-21
- Hacker News mention years
- 2014–2019
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other documentary videos in Nuclear power & fusion. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chernobyl 3828Current video | 2 | 3 | 38% | — | 26m 57s | 2012-04-21 |
| Into Eternity - Official trailerdocumentary · Dogwoof | 2 | 2 | 50% | No recorded overlap | 2m 2s | 2010-10-20 |
| These tunnels are designed for 100,000 yearsdocumentary · Tom Scott | 2 | 2 | 40% | No recorded overlap | 6m 9s | 2019-09-30 |
| Nuclear Propulsion in Spacedocumentary · US National Archives | 2 | 2 | 50% | No recorded overlap | 23m 49s | 2017-01-05 |
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 “HBO's Chernobyl may yet become the highest rated TV Show ever”. Its short rationale: Personal-viewpoint account of cleanup from Starodumov and Bordakov.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “They Fictionalize Nuclear Disasters Like Chernobyl Because They Kill So Few”. Its short rationale: Firsthand accounts and footage of roof cleanup liquidators.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “High radiation readings at Fukushima’s No. 2 reactor complicate robot probe”. Its short rationale: Ukrainian documentary on roof cleanup by two-minute-shift liquidators.