explainer · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
I Solved Klotski
2swap · 3 HN recommenders · 3 recommendation months
Recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 months (2025–2026).
SignalTube analysis
Among 4 other explainer videos tagged Chess, board games & puzzles, the mean is 4.3 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 3 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 3 distinct months; the peer average is 3.5 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
75% of its 4 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2025–2026; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 12 minutes 20 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2025-08-22.
- Channel / speaker
- 2swap
- Verified runtime
- 12m 20s
- YouTube upload date
- 2025-08-22
- Hacker News mention years
- 2025–2026
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Chess, board games & puzzles. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I Solved KlotskiCurrent video | 3 | 3 | 75% | — | 12m 20s | 2025-08-22 |
| 30 Weird Chess Algorithms: Elo Worldexplainer · suckerpinch | 8 | 6 | 62% | No recorded overlap | 42m 36s | 2019-07-15 |
| The Expert Mythexplainer · Veritasium | 6 | 5 | 43% | No recorded overlap | 17m 59s | 2022-08-02 |
| Alpha Zero's "Immortal Zugzwang Game" against Stockfishexplainer · agadmator's Chess Channel | 2 | 2 | 67% | No recorded overlap | 15m 37s | 2017-12-07 |
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 “Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL”. Its short rationale: 2swap's graph visualizations are similar to this project.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Solving Rush Hour, the Puzzle (2018)”. Its short rationale: 2swap visualizes Rush Hour solutions in 3D.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Klotski”. Its short rationale: Video with more information on Klotski solving.