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CygnusEd Professional in Action on an Amiga 2000
Casey Muratori · 1 HN recommenders · 2 recommendation months
Recommended by 1 Hacker News commenters across 2 months (2016–2023).
SignalTube analysis
Among 69 other demo videos tagged Demoscene & retrocomputing, the mean is 1.8 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 1 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 2 distinct months; the peer average is 1.9 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
50% of its 4 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2016–2023; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 0 minutes 23 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2014-08-12.
- Channel / speaker
- Casey Muratori
- Verified runtime
- 0m 23s
- YouTube upload date
- 2014-08-12
- Hacker News mention years
- 2016–2023
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other demo videos in Demoscene & retrocomputing. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CygnusEd Professional in Action on an Amiga 2000Current video | 1 | 2 | 50% | — | 0m 23s | 2014-08-12 |
| A Mind Is Born (256 bytes)demo · lftkryo | 8 | 9 | 50% | No recorded overlap | 2m 22s | 2017-04-19 |
| elevated by Rgba & TBC | 4k intro (FullHD 1080p demoscene demo)demo · Demoscene High-Quality Videos (Annikras) | 7 | 10 | 67% | No recorded overlap | 3m 36s | 2011-06-26 |
| Elevated by RGBA and TBCdemo · BUTTONTANG | 7 | 7 | 58% | No recorded overlap | 3m 36s | 2009-04-12 |
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 “Lerp”. Its short rationale: Example of early smooth-scrolling editor tricks that add input lag.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “We Made Amiga, They Fucked It Up (2015)”. Its short rationale: Demonstrates CygnusEd's famously fast scrolling on 8 MHz Amiga hardware.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Slap – A Sublime-like terminal-based text editor”. Its short rationale: Shows how fast a graphical editor scrolled on an 8 MHz Amiga.