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Sam Aaron live coding a DJ set with Sonic Pi
Sam Aaron · 3 HN recommenders · 3 recommendation months
Recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 months (2017–2020).
SignalTube analysis
Among 23 other demo videos tagged Music theory, synthesis & production, the mean is 1.9 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 3 distinct HN recommenders, about 1.6× that mean. Recommendations span 3 distinct months; the peer average is 1.9 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
75% of its 4 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2017–2020; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 145 minutes 57 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2016-04-15.
- Channel / speaker
- Sam Aaron
- Verified runtime
- 2h 25m 57s
- YouTube upload date
- 2016-04-15
- Hacker News mention years
- 2017–2020
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other demo videos in Music theory, synthesis & production. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Aaron live coding a DJ set with Sonic PiCurrent video | 3 | 3 | 75% | — | 2h 25m 57s | 2016-04-15 |
| Bytebeat: Experimental music from very short C programsdemo · Ville-Matias Heikkilä (viznut) | 4 | 4 | 67% | No recorded overlap | 4m 12s | 2011-09-26 |
| Making of "The Prodigy - Voodoo People" in Ableton by Jim Pavloffdemo · Jim Pavloff | 3 | 3 | 100% | No recorded overlap | 10m 55s | 2010-01-21 |
| Sam Aaron live coding an ambient electro set w/ Sonic Pidemo · Sam Aaron | 3 | 3 | 100% | No recorded overlap | 22m 1s | 2016-08-07 |
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 recommendation in “Ask HN: Those who left software development for a different technical field?”. Its short rationale: Demo of making music with Ruby code.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and performance tool”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Sonic Pi: Compose electronic music with code”. Its short rationale: Most impressive thing you can do with programmable music.