comedy · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Tom Lehrer - New Math (Animated)
Jared Khan · 4 HN recommenders · 3 recommendation months
Recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 3 months (2013–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 281 other comedy videos tagged Satire & parody, the mean is 0.6 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 4 distinct HN recommenders, about 6.4× that mean. Recommendations span 3 distinct months; the peer average is 0.6 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
29% of its 14 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2013–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 4 minutes 23 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2010-07-05.
- Channel / speaker
- Jared Khan
- Verified runtime
- 4m 23s
- YouTube upload date
- 2010-07-05
- Hacker News mention years
- 2013–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
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The comparison cohort uses other comedy videos in Satire & parody. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Lehrer - New Math (Animated)Current video | 4 | 3 | 29% | — | 4m 23s | 2010-07-05 |
| The Loving Trapcomedy · Ben Woodhams | 15 | 11 | 75% | No recorded overlap | 2m 58s | 2011-06-17 |
| Erlang The Movie II: The Sequelcomedy · gar1t | 6 | 6 | 40% | No recorded overlap | 9m 55s | 2013-03-22 |
| Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning]comedy · suckerpinch | 5 | 4 | 71% | No recorded overlap | 24m 13s | 2021-04-01 |
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 “Why do Stanford math professors still use chalk? (2021)”. Its short rationale: Song references pounding dust out of erasers.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Why did Tom Lehrer swap fame for obscurity?”. Its short rationale: Shows the old and new subtraction methods side by side.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Why did Tom Lehrer swap fame for obscurity?”. Its short rationale: Animated version showing the different subtraction methods in the song.