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Self: The Movie;
Jecel Assumpção Jr · 2 HN recommenders · 2 recommendation months
Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 months (2013–2024).
SignalTube analysis
Among 15 other demo videos tagged Programming language design, the mean is 2.6 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 2 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 2 distinct months; the peer average is 2.7 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
20% of its 10 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2013–2024; 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
- Jecel Assumpção Jr
- Verified runtime
- Not verified in the current YouTube metadata
- YouTube upload date
- Not verified
- Hacker News mention years
- 2013–2024
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other demo videos in Programming language design. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self: The Movie;Current video | 2 | 2 | 20% | — | Not verified in the current YouTube metadata | Not verified |
| Conway's Game Of Life in APLdemo · Dyalog | 11 | 10 | 55% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| 7 minutes of Pharo Smalltalk for Rubyistsdemo · Avdi Grimm | 5 | 8 | 53% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| APL demonstration 1975demo · Imperial College London | 5 | 4 | 63% | 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 “Launch HN: Haystack (YC S24) – Visualize and edit code on an infinite canvas”. Its short rationale: Sun's 1995 video on the Kansas environment in Self.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Ambient Co-Presence”. Its short rationale: Official Sun movie showing Self's shared visual environment.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Julia and the Reincarnation of Lisp (2020)”. Its short rationale: Asks for resources on Self, cited as source for prototypal inheritance.