explainer · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
The Longest Year in Human History (46 B.C.E.)
Historia Civilis · 4 HN recommenders · 3 recommendation months
Recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 3 months (2021–2024).
SignalTube analysis
Among 39 other explainer videos tagged World history, the mean is 3.8 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 4 distinct HN recommenders, close to that mean. Recommendations span 3 distinct months; the peer average is 3.8 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
80% of its 5 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2021–2024; 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
- Historia Civilis
- Verified runtime
- Not verified in the current YouTube metadata
- YouTube upload date
- Not verified
- Hacker News mention years
- 2021–2024
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in World history. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Longest Year in Human History (46 B.C.E.)Current video | 4 | 3 | 80% | — | Not verified in the current YouTube metadata | Not verified |
| Try to Rule Fairly and You'll Be Overthrownexplainer · CGP Grey | 15 | 15 | 75% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| London Swallowed a City but Couldn't Digest It.explainer · CGP Grey | 12 | 11 | 65% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| Why Some Diseases Only Traveled One Directionexplainer · CGP Grey | 11 | 9 | 69% | 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 “Julius Caesar's Year of Confusion”. Its short rationale: Great explanation of how Caesar used the long year in war.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Julius Caesar's Year of Confusion”. Its short rationale: From a favorite YouTube series covering this exact topic.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar”. Its short rationale: Digestible, entertaining video on Julius Caesar designing the calendar.