explainer · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
World's Roundest Object!
Veritasium · 6 HN recommenders · 4 recommendation months
Recommended by 6 Hacker News commenters across 4 months (2013–2018).
SignalTube analysis
Among 8 other explainer videos tagged Physics & space (other), the mean is 3.1 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 6 distinct HN recommenders, about 1.9× that mean. Recommendations span 4 distinct months; the peer average is 2.6 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
67% of its 9 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2013–2018; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 11 minutes 44 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2013-03-25.
- Channel / speaker
- Veritasium
- Verified runtime
- 11m 44s
- YouTube upload date
- 2013-03-25
- Hacker News mention years
- 2013–2018
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Physics & space (other). “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World's Roundest Object!Current video | 6 | 4 | 67% | — | 11m 44s | 2013-03-25 |
| I promise this story about microwaves is interesting.explainer · Tom Scott | 9 | 7 | 45% | No recorded overlap | 12m 9s | 2021-05-17 |
| The world depends on a collection of strange items. They're not cheapexplainer · Veritasium | 6 | 4 | 60% | No recorded overlap | 18m 32s | 2022-11-19 |
| How We're Redefining the kgexplainer · Veritasium | 3 | 3 | 100% | No recorded overlap | 9m 49s | 2017-07-12 |
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 “International System of Units overhauled in historic vote”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “NIST to redefine the kilogram based on a fundamental universal constant”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Why nuclear energy is our best option at the moment”. Its short rationale: Explains how the gram was defined from water.