talk · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Maybe Not - Rich Hickey
ClojureTV · 14 HN recommenders · 11 recommendation months
Recommended by 14 Hacker News commenters across 11 months (2018–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 138 other talk videos tagged Programming language design, the mean is 3.1 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 14 distinct HN recommenders, about 4.5× that mean. Recommendations span 11 distinct months, longer than the peer average of 3.1 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
70% of its 20 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2018–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. A verified runtime is not present in the current metadata snapshot. A verified YouTube publication date is not present in the current metadata snapshot.
- Channel / speaker
- ClojureTV
- Verified runtime
- Not verified in the current YouTube metadata
- YouTube upload date
- Not verified
- Hacker News mention years
- 2018–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other talk videos in Programming language design. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maybe Not - Rich HickeyCurrent video | 14 | 11 | 70% | — | Not verified in the current YouTube metadata | Not verified |
| How Python was Shaped by leaky Internals, Armin Ronacher, Flask frameworktalk · Видео с мероприятий {speach! | 15 | 16 | 90% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? – Richard Feldmantalk · Metosin | 12 | 12 | 70% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| Growing a Language, by Guy Steeletalk · Bill Pugh | 11 | 10 | 55% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
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 “The jank programming language”. Its short rationale: Hickey talk that criticizes static types.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Why Clojure?”. Its short rationale: Hickey's work on type signatures telling little about function behavior.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “Programming languages that blew my mind (2023)”. Its short rationale: Flipped the commenter's thinking about types and Either.