explainer · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
How We're Redefining the kg
Veritasium · 3 HN recommenders · 3 recommendation months
Recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 months (2017–2024).
SignalTube analysis
Among 8 other explainer videos tagged Physics & space (other), the mean is 3.5 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 3 distinct HN recommenders, close to that mean. Recommendations span 3 distinct months; the peer average is 2.8 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
100% of its 3 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2017–2024; 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
- Veritasium
- Verified runtime
- Not verified in the current YouTube metadata
- YouTube upload date
- Not verified
- Hacker News mention years
- 2017–2024
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Physics & space (other). “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| How We're Redefining the kgCurrent video | 3 | 3 | 100% | — | Not verified in the current YouTube metadata | Not verified |
| I promise this story about microwaves is interesting.explainer · Tom Scott | 9 | 7 | 45% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| World's Roundest Object!explainer · Veritasium | 6 | 4 | 67% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| The world depends on a collection of strange items. They're not cheapexplainer · Veritasium | 6 | 4 | 60% | 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 strong recommendation in “Le Grand K (2018)”. Its short rationale: Explains Le Grand K and Planck's constant.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “Redefining the Kilogram”. Its short rationale: How the kilogram is being redefined.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Why scientists are redefining the kilogram”. Its short rationale: Explains why the kilogram definition is being changed.