talk · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
"Production Prolog" by Michael Hendricks
Strange Loop Conference · 6 HN recommenders · 6 recommendation months
Recommended by 6 Hacker News commenters across 6 months (2015–2023).
SignalTube analysis
Among 175 other talk videos tagged Functional programming, the mean is 3.7 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 6 distinct HN recommenders, about 1.6× that mean. Recommendations span 6 distinct months, longer than the peer average of 3.8 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
70% of its 10 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2015–2023; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 39 minutes 58 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2014-09-21.
- Channel / speaker
- Strange Loop Conference
- Verified runtime
- 39m 58s
- YouTube upload date
- 2014-09-21
- Hacker News mention years
- 2015–2023
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other talk videos in Functional programming. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Production Prolog" by Michael HendricksCurrent video | 6 | 6 | 70% | — | 39m 58s | 2014-09-21 |
| Ruby Conf 12 - Y Not- Adventures in Functional Programming by Jim Weirichtalk · Confreaks | 17 | 18 | 90% | No recorded overlap | 53m 22s | 2012-11-11 |
| The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Sasa Juric • GOTO 2019talk · GOTO Conferences | 16 | 14 | 80% | No recorded overlap | 42m 3s | 2019-05-22 |
| "Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)talk · Strange Loop Conference | 14 | 14 | 70% | No recorded overlap | 61m 39s | 2021-09-02 |
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 “Tar.pl – A tar creator and extractor in approx. 100 lines of Prolog”. Its short rationale: Talk demonstrates similar practical Prolog use.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming?”. Its short rationale: Motivation for using Prolog, in a list of resources.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “The FAQ of comp.lang.prolog is maintained as a Prolog source file”. Its short rationale: Demo of pausing, changing code, and resuming execution at 12:17.