demo · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Robust-first computing: Demon Horde Sort (full version)
Dave Ackley · 3 HN recommenders · 6 recommendation months
Recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 6 months (2015–2023).
SignalTube analysis
Among 19 other demo videos tagged Computer architecture & CPUs, the mean is 1.3 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 3 distinct HN recommenders, about 2.4× that mean. Recommendations span 6 distinct months, longer than the peer average of 1.3 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
78% of its 9 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2015–2023; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 27 minutes 13 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2013-01-31.
- Channel / speaker
- Dave Ackley
- Verified runtime
- 27m 13s
- YouTube upload date
- 2013-01-31
- Hacker News mention years
- 2015–2023
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other demo videos in Computer architecture & CPUs. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robust-first computing: Demon Horde Sort (full version)Current video | 3 | 6 | 78% | — | 27m 13s | 2013-01-31 |
| NaN Gates and Flip FLOPSdemo · suckerpinch | 7 | 7 | 89% | No recorded overlap | 19m 8s | 2019-04-01 |
| Samsung SSD Awesomenessdemo · ssdawesome | 3 | 3 | 75% | No recorded overlap | 4m 13s | 2009-03-02 |
| Living Computation: Robust-first programming in ULAMdemo · Dave Ackley | 2 | 2 | 50% | 1 (33%) | 15m 3s | 2015-09-08 |
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 “Artificial Life Creation T-0 and Launching”. Its short rationale: Explains the general idea of asynchronous cellular automata on tiles.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Self Replicating Computer Programs”. Its short rationale: Source where the commenter first learned of the movable feast machine.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (1977) [pdf]”. Its short rationale: Reposted explanation of robust-first computing with demo and talk links.