talk · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
John Wiegley: Putting Lenses to Work
Bay Area Haskell · 4 HN recommenders · 4 recommendation months
Recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 4 months (2020–2024).
SignalTube analysis
Among 175 other talk videos tagged Functional programming, the mean is 3.7 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 4 distinct HN recommenders, close to that mean. Recommendations span 4 distinct months; the peer average is 3.9 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
100% of its 5 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2020–2024; 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
- Bay Area Haskell
- Verified runtime
- Not verified in the current YouTube metadata
- YouTube upload date
- Not verified
- Hacker News mention years
- 2020–2024
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other talk videos in Functional programming. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Wiegley: Putting Lenses to WorkCurrent video | 4 | 4 | 100% | — | Not verified in the current YouTube metadata | Not verified |
| Ruby Conf 12 - Y Not- Adventures in Functional Programming by Jim Weirichtalk · Confreaks | 17 | 18 | 90% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Sasa Juric • GOTO 2019talk · GOTO Conferences | 16 | 14 | 80% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| "Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)talk · Strange Loop Conference | 14 | 14 | 70% | 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 “Ask HN: What resources do you recommend for learning Haskell?”. Its short rationale: Great introduction to lenses by example, with humorous audience.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Ask HN: What piece of code/codebase blew your mind when you saw it?”. Its short rationale: Good lens video with far-out examples in the later portion.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Lenses”. Its short rationale: More examples of lenses beyond record access.