commentary · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Cities Without People
Jacob Geller · 2 HN recommenders · 2 recommendation months
Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 months (2021–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 31 other commentary videos tagged Gaming culture & analysis, the mean is 2.9 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.
67% of its 3 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2021–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 25 minutes 8 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2020-09-18.
- Channel / speaker
- Jacob Geller
- Verified runtime
- 25m 8s
- YouTube upload date
- 2020-09-18
- Hacker News mention years
- 2021–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other commentary videos in Gaming culture & 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cities Without PeopleCurrent video | 2 | 2 | 67% | — | 25m 8s | 2020-09-18 |
| Contrepreneurs: The Mikkelsen Twinscommentary · Folding Ideas | 10 | 8 | 55% | No recorded overlap | 75m 38s | 2022-09-27 |
| Why Are You So Angry? Part 1: A Short History of Anita Sarkeesiancommentary · Innuendo Studios | 7 | 7 | 100% | No recorded overlap | 9m 36s | 2015-07-13 |
| Manufactured Discontent and Fortnitecommentary · Folding Ideas | 6 | 7 | 64% | No recorded overlap | 21m 19s | 2019-04-01 |
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 “A Mysterious Website I Stumbled Upon”. Its short rationale: Fun, effective summary of a story by Jacob Geller.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024”. Its short rationale: Video essay that introduced the commenter to Invisible Cities.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Borges: The Library of Babel [pdf]”. Its short rationale: Jacob Geller video essay related to Borges' work.