explainer · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
The Moon's Orbit is WEIRD
minutephysics · 4 HN recommenders · 4 recommendation months
Recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 4 months (2024–2026).
SignalTube analysis
Among 72 other explainer videos tagged Cosmology & astrophysics, the mean is 2.6 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 4 distinct HN recommenders, about 1.6× that mean. Recommendations span 4 distinct months; the peer average is 2.4 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
100% of its 4 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2024–2026; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. A verified runtime is not present in the current metadata snapshot. A verified YouTube publication date is not present in the current metadata snapshot.
- Channel / speaker
- minutephysics
- Verified runtime
- Not verified in the current YouTube metadata
- YouTube upload date
- Not verified
- Hacker News mention years
- 2024–2026
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Cosmology & astrophysics. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Moon's Orbit is WEIRDCurrent video | 4 | 4 | 100% | — | Not verified in the current YouTube metadata | Not verified |
| The Solar Gravitational Lens will Map Exoplanets. Seriously.explainer · Launch Pad Astronomy | 10 | 9 | 65% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| A new way to visualize General Relativityexplainer · ScienceClic English | 8 | 6 | 89% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| How to Understand What Black Holes Look Likeexplainer · Veritasium | 8 | 4 | 80% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
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 “Show HN: Gravity – interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein”. Its short rationale: Subtle explanation of the moon orbiting alongside Earth around the sun.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth”. Its short rationale: Explains the moon's orbit curving toward the sun.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star”. Its short rationale: Shows the moon effectively orbits the sun.