explainer · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
How Far Are The Nearest Stars?
Cody'sLab · 3 HN recommenders · 5 recommendation months
Recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 5 months (2019–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 72 other explainer videos tagged Cosmology & astrophysics, the mean is 2.6 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 3 distinct HN recommenders, about 1.2× that mean. Recommendations span 5 distinct months; the peer average is 2.4 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
83% of its 6 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2019–2025; 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
- Cody'sLab
- Verified runtime
- Not verified in the current YouTube metadata
- YouTube upload date
- Not verified
- Hacker News mention years
- 2019–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Cosmology & astrophysics. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| How Far Are The Nearest Stars?Current video | 3 | 5 | 83% | — | Not verified in the current YouTube metadata | Not verified |
| The Solar Gravitational Lens will Map Exoplanets. Seriously.explainer · Launch Pad Astronomy | 10 | 9 | 65% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| A new way to visualize General Relativityexplainer · ScienceClic English | 8 | 6 | 89% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| How to Understand What Black Holes Look Likeexplainer · Veritasium | 8 | 4 | 80% | 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 strong recommendation in “Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart”. Its short rationale: Favorite video on star distances; also shows how bright stars are.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Rubio Says He’s Heard Shocking ‘Firsthand’ Accounts of UFOs”. Its short rationale: Illustrates distance to the closest star.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “'Oumuamua: An analysis of the debate regarding the first interstellar visitor”. Its short rationale: Illustrates distances between stars.