music · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Jake Thackray 'Molly Metcalfe'
TallPiler · 2 HN recommenders · 2 recommendation months
Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 months (2013–2024).
SignalTube analysis
Among 170 other music videos tagged Music performance & songs, the mean is 1.3 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 2 distinct HN recommenders, about 1.6× that mean. Recommendations span 2 distinct months; the peer average is 1.2 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
50% of its 6 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2013–2024; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 4 minutes 5 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2009-07-28.
- Channel / speaker
- TallPiler
- Verified runtime
- 4m 5s
- YouTube upload date
- 2009-07-28
- Hacker News mention years
- 2013–2024
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other music videos in Music performance & songs. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jake Thackray 'Molly Metcalfe'Current video | 2 | 2 | 50% | — | 4m 5s | 2009-07-28 |
| Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusolmusic · Le Pietre Rotolanti | 6 | 6 | 35% | No recorded overlap | 3m 40s | 2012-12-09 |
| William Shatner - Common Peoplemusic · dsjkhd | 6 | 5 | 86% | No recorded overlap | 4m 43s | 2009-06-07 |
| The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End Of Time - Stages 1-6 (Complete)music · vvmtest | 5 | 5 | 83% | No recorded overlap | 390m 32s | 2019-03-14 |
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 “Optimizers need a rethink”. Its short rationale: Bonus link on traditional counting.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Yan tan tethera pethera pimp – an old system for counting sheep”. Its short rationale: Song containing the sheep-counting words.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Yan Tan Tethera”. Its short rationale: Jake Thackray singing about the sheep-counting system.