talk · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Tree-sitter: a new parsing system for programming tools - GitHub Universe 2017
GitHub · 2 HN recommenders · 2 recommendation months
Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 months (2018–2022).
SignalTube analysis
Among 72 other talk videos tagged Compilers, interpreters & program analysis, the mean is 3.1 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 2 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 2 distinct months; the peer average is 3.1 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
50% of its 4 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2018–2022; 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
- GitHub
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- Not verified in the current YouTube metadata
- YouTube upload date
- Not verified
- Hacker News mention years
- 2018–2022
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other talk videos in Compilers, interpreters & program analysis. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tree-sitter: a new parsing system for programming tools - GitHub Universe 2017Current video | 2 | 2 | 50% | — | Not verified in the current YouTube metadata | Not verified |
| Rich Harris - Rethinking reactivitytalk · You Gotta Love Frontend | 15 | 13 | 75% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| Lexical Scanning in Go - Rob Piketalk · GoogleFOSSSydney | 13 | 12 | 65% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| CppCon 2016: Jason Turner “Rich Code for Tiny Computers: A Simple Commodore 64 Game in C++17”talk · CppCon | 13 | 10 | 65% | 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 recommendation in “Zas Editor”. Its short rationale: Long talk on tree-sitter and error-tolerant parsing.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Diffsitter: A tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs”. Its short rationale: Listed among tree-sitter resources.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “A Brief and Brisk Overview of Compiler Architecture”. Its short rationale: Tree-sitter talk cited as parser option for new languages.