demo · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Quake on an oscilloscope
pekkavaa · 0 HN recommenders · 0 recommendation months
Recommended by 0 Hacker News commenters across 0 months (2016–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 17 other demo videos tagged Speedrunning, glitches & game hacking, the mean is 2.4 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 0 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 0 distinct months; the peer average is 2.4 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
0% of its 4 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2016–2025; 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
- pekkavaa
- Verified runtime
- Not verified in the current YouTube metadata
- YouTube upload date
- Not verified
- Hacker News mention years
- 2016–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other demo videos in Speedrunning, glitches & game hacking. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quake on an oscilloscopeCurrent video | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | Not verified in the current YouTube metadata | Not verified |
| MarI/O - Machine Learning for Video Gamesdemo · SethBling | 10 | 10 | 50% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| SNES Code Injection -- Flappy Bird in SMWdemo · SethBling | 9 | 9 | 45% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| [TAS] Pokémon Yellow - Arbitrary Code Executiondemo · MrWint | 4 | 4 | 67% | 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 “Show HN: KiDoom – Running DOOM on PCB Traces”. Its short rationale: Quake rendered on a scope with 3D models showing shape.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight”. Its short rationale: Quake on a vector display at a low framerate.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “The DooM-chip: no CPU, no opcodes, no instruction counter”. Its short rationale: Quake running on an oscilloscope.