lecture · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Seminar with Alan Kay on Object Oriented Programming (VPRI 0246)
Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹) · 2 HN recommenders · 2 recommendation months
Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 months (2017–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 6 other lecture videos tagged Software architecture & design, the mean is 6.0 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 2 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 2 distinct months; the peer average is 5.7 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
22% of its 9 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2017–2025; 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
- Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹)
- Verified runtime
- Not verified in the current YouTube metadata
- YouTube upload date
- Not verified
- Hacker News mention years
- 2017–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other lecture videos in Software architecture & 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seminar with Alan Kay on Object Oriented Programming (VPRI 0246)Current video | 2 | 2 | 22% | — | Not verified in the current YouTube metadata | Not verified |
| The Only Unbreakable Lawlecture · Molly Rocket | 12 | 9 | 60% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| Lecture 1A: Overview and Introduction to Lisplecture · MIT OpenCourseWare | 10 | 10 | 50% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| Clean Code - Uncle Bob / Lesson 1lecture · UnityCoin | 6 | 7 | 100% | 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 “The Big Oops: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five-Year Mistake [video]”. Its short rationale: Evidence Kay discussed message-passing in mid-80s.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Alan Kay did not invent objects (2019)”. Its short rationale: Kay discusses objects sensing environment, around 12 minutes.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981)”. Its short rationale: Ideas on modularizing OO systems and issues with Smalltalk.