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Lies on the London Underground
Tom Scott · 0 HN recommenders · 0 recommendation months
Recommended by 0 Hacker News commenters across 0 months (2020–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 93 other explainer videos tagged Transit, cities & urban planning, the mean is 3.3 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 0 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 0 distinct months; the peer average is 3.1 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
0% of its 3 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2020–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 2 minutes 28 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2013-05-15.
- Channel / speaker
- Tom Scott
- Verified runtime
- 2m 28s
- YouTube upload date
- 2013-05-15
- Hacker News mention years
- 2020–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lies on the London UndergroundCurrent video | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | 2m 28s | 2013-05-15 |
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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 “Bus Bunching”. Its short rationale: Example of designers favoring global optimum over local optima.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Google Combines Maps and Waze Teams in Restructuring Move”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “The Economics of Maps [pdf]”. Its short rationale: Highlights peculiarities of the London Underground caused by non-geographic maps.