demo · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
SNES Code Injection -- Flappy Bird in SMW
SethBling · 9 HN recommenders · 9 recommendation months
Recommended by 9 Hacker News commenters across 9 months (2016–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 17 other demo videos tagged Speedrunning, glitches & game hacking, the mean is 1.8 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 9 distinct HN recommenders, about 4.9× that mean. Recommendations span 9 distinct months, longer than the peer average of 1.8 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
45% of its 20 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2016–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 6 minutes 31 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2016-03-28.
- Channel / speaker
- SethBling
- Verified runtime
- 6m 31s
- YouTube upload date
- 2016-03-28
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNES Code Injection -- Flappy Bird in SMWCurrent video | 9 | 9 | 45% | — | 6m 31s | 2016-03-28 |
| MarI/O - Machine Learning for Video Gamesdemo · SethBling | 10 | 10 | 50% | No recorded overlap | 5m 58s | 2015-06-13 |
| [TAS] Pokémon Yellow - Arbitrary Code Executiondemo · MrWint | 4 | 4 | 67% | 1 (11%) | 7m 45s | 2017-02-05 |
| TasBlock at AGDQ 2017: TASBotdemo · TASVideosChannel | 3 | 3 | 60% | No recorded overlap | 58m 44s | 2017-01-16 |
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 “Bad Apple but it's played inside Super Mario Bros”. Its short rationale: Hand-done injection explaining how and why the glitch works.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Speedrunners are vulnerability researchers, they just don't know it yet”. Its short rationale: Runner using arbitrary code execution to inject Flappy Bird into Super Mario World.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Speedrunners are vulnerability researchers, they just don't know it yet”. Its short rationale: Hand-done Flappy Bird injection showing speedrunners' deep system knowledge.