talk · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Plover: Thought to Text at 240 WPM
Next Day Video · 8 HN recommenders · 8 recommendation months
Recommended by 8 Hacker News commenters across 8 months (2014–2023).
SignalTube analysis
Among 94 other talk videos tagged Software practice, open source & careers, the mean is 3.3 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 8 distinct HN recommenders, about 2.4× that mean. Recommendations span 8 distinct months, longer than the peer average of 3.3 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
47% of its 17 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2014–2023; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 34 minutes 21 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2013-03-21.
- Channel / speaker
- Next Day Video
- Verified runtime
- 34m 21s
- YouTube upload date
- 2013-03-21
- Hacker News mention years
- 2014–2023
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other talk videos in Software practice, open source & careers. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plover: Thought to Text at 240 WPMCurrent video | 8 | 8 | 47% | — | 34m 21s | 2013-03-21 |
| Bret Victor The Future of Programmingtalk · Joey Reid | 12 | 11 | 60% | No recorded overlap | 32m 56s | 2013-07-31 |
| Using Python to Code by Voicetalk · Next Day Video | 12 | 9 | 60% | No recorded overlap | 28m 17s | 2013-03-21 |
| 🚀 TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong (Ian Cooper)talk · DevTernity Conference | 11 | 11 | 80% | No recorded overlap | 63m 55s | 2017-12-20 |
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 “Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard”. Its short rationale: Great talk with realtime demo of live-coding via Plover.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Plover”. Its short rationale: Good video from prior Plover discussions.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Ask HN: Any good text-to-speech solutions for someone who cannot talk normally?”. Its short rationale: Old talk on steno as fast text input for someone who cannot speak.