documentary · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
The KGB, the Computer, and Me.
DragonFartOutLoud · 3 HN recommenders · 3 recommendation months
Recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 months (2021–2024).
SignalTube analysis
Among 4 other documentary videos tagged Security & hacking, the mean is 2.0 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 3 distinct HN recommenders, about 1.5× that mean. Recommendations span 3 distinct months; the peer average is 2.0 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
60% of its 5 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2021–2024; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 56 minutes 58 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2013-11-02.
- Channel / speaker
- DragonFartOutLoud
- Verified runtime
- 56m 58s
- YouTube upload date
- 2013-11-02
- Hacker News mention years
- 2021–2024
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other documentary videos in Security & hacking. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The KGB, the Computer, and Me.Current video | 3 | 3 | 60% | — | 56m 58s | 2013-11-02 |
| The KGB, The Computer and Me - The Cuckoo’s Egg Storydocumentary · Australian Phoenix CyberOps | 3 | 3 | 100% | No recorded overlap | 56m 58s | 2023-09-16 |
| The KGB, the Computer, and Me (Complete)documentary · GBPPR2 | 2 | 2 | 50% | No recorded overlap | 56m 58s | 2011-01-23 |
| Spying on the Scammers [Part 1/5]documentary · Jim Browning | 2 | 2 | 40% | No recorded overlap | 16m 18s | 2020-03-02 |
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 “Cliff Stoll, the mad scientist who wrote the book on how to hunt hackers (2019)”. Its short rationale: Old Nova documentary of the Cuckoo's Egg story.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “How a Berkeley Eccentric Beat the Russians – Then Made Useless, Wondrous Objects”. Its short rationale: 1990 documentary featuring Cliff Stoll.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Ask HN: What book have you re-read 3x or more?”. Its short rationale: NOVA episode based on the book.