comedy · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Tim Minchin: Storm
TheDamnWreckless · 1 HN recommenders · 1 recommendation months
Recommended by 1 Hacker News commenters across 1 months (2016–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 4 other comedy videos tagged Religion, belief & skepticism, the mean is 0.8 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 1 distinct HN recommenders, about 1.3× that mean. Recommendations span 1 distinct month; the peer average is 0.8 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
25% of its 4 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2016–2025; 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
- TheDamnWreckless
- Verified runtime
- Not verified in the current YouTube metadata
- YouTube upload date
- Not verified
- Hacker News mention years
- 2016–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other comedy videos in Religion, belief & skepticism. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tim Minchin: StormCurrent video | 1 | 1 | 25% | — | Not verified in the current YouTube metadata | Not verified |
| Tim Minchin's Storm the Animated Moviecomedy · stormmovie | 3 | 3 | 50% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| Flat Earth Conferencecomedy · All Gas No Brakes | 0 | 0 | 0% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| That Mitchell and Webb Look: Homeopathic A&Ecomedy · gudbuytjane | 0 | 0 | 0% | 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 contextual reference in “Big Data was used to see if TCM was scientific (2023)”. Its short rationale: Origin of the quote in Minchin's poem.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Do viruses trigger Alzheimer's?”. Its short rationale: Source of the alternative medicine that works is medicine quote.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Research into homeopathy: data falsification, fabrication and manipulation”. Its short rationale: Quote mocking water memory in homeopathy.