documentary · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Making of Second Reality / Future Crew
Mika Tuomi · 2 HN recommenders · 2 recommendation months
Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 months (2011–2024).
SignalTube analysis
Among 16 other documentary videos tagged Demoscene & retrocomputing, the mean is 3.3 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 2 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 2 distinct months; the peer average is 3.1 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
25% of its 8 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2011–2024; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 9 minutes 24 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2010-08-09.
- Channel / speaker
- Mika Tuomi
- Verified runtime
- 9m 24s
- YouTube upload date
- 2010-08-09
- Hacker News mention years
- 2011–2024
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other documentary 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Making of Second Reality / Future CrewCurrent video | 2 | 2 | 25% | — | 9m 24s | 2010-08-09 |
| Apollo Guidance Computer Part 1: Restoring the computer that put man on the Moondocumentary · CuriousMarc | 8 | 6 | 89% | No recorded overlap | 21m 4s | 2018-11-14 |
| Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bitdocumentary · Ahoy | 7 | 8 | 57% | No recorded overlap | 41m 12s | 2021-11-19 |
| Moleman 2 - Demoscene - The Art of the Algorithms (2012)documentary · Vakondok (Moleman) | 6 | 6 | 100% | No recorded overlap | 89m 59s | 2012-04-06 |
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 “Second Reality code review (2013)”. Its short rationale: Making-of video the commenter had not seen before.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Second Reality for Apple II”. Its short rationale: Future Crew finishing Second Reality a week before release.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Amiga Music Preservation”. Its short rationale: Making of Second Reality by Future Crew.