lecture · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
How to Speak
MIT OpenCourseWare · 17 HN recommenders · 16 recommendation months
Recommended by 17 Hacker News commenters across 16 months (2020–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 105 other lecture videos tagged University lectures & courses, the mean is 4.5 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 17 distinct HN recommenders, about 3.7× that mean. Recommendations span 16 distinct months, longer than the peer average of 4.3 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
85% of its 20 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2020–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 63 minutes 43 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2019-12-20.
- Channel / speaker
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- Verified runtime
- 1h 3m 43s
- YouTube upload date
- 2019-12-20
- Hacker News mention years
- 2020–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other lecture videos in University lectures & courses. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| How to SpeakCurrent video | 17 | 16 | 85% | — | 1h 3m 43s | 2019-12-20 |
| MIT's Pathway to Fusion Energy (IAP 2017) - Zach Hartwiglecture · MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center | 16 | 13 | 80% | No recorded overlap | 71m 40s | 2017-02-06 |
| 1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biologylecture · Stanford | 15 | 15 | 75% | No recorded overlap | 57m 15s | 2011-02-01 |
| LEADERSHIP LAB: The Craft of Writing Effectivelylecture · UChicago Social Sciences | 15 | 14 | 75% | No recorded overlap | 81m 52s | 2014-06-26 |
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 “Paper2video: Automatic video generation from scientific papers”. Its short rationale: Teaches making presentations engaging and memorable.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “How to Give a Good Talk”. Its short rationale: Best lecture of its kind, rewatched several times.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “Start presentations on the second slide”. Its short rationale: Reliable presentation framework used for technical and business talks.