explainer · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
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Historia Civilis · 3 HN recommenders · 3 recommendation months
Recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 months (2023–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 21 other explainer videos tagged Labor, work & inequality, the mean is 3.2 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 3 distinct HN recommenders, close to that mean. Recommendations span 3 distinct months; the peer average is 3.2 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
43% of its 7 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2023–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 33 minutes 16 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2023-09-29.
- Channel / speaker
- Historia Civilis
- Verified runtime
- 33m 16s
- YouTube upload date
- 2023-09-29
- Hacker News mention years
- 2023–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Labor, work & inequality. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Work.Current video | 3 | 3 | 43% | — | 33m 16s | 2023-09-29 |
| What Happened to Horses Is Happening to Usexplainer · CGP Grey | 11 | 11 | 55% | No recorded overlap | 15m 1s | 2014-08-13 |
| Wealth Inequality in Americaexplainer · politizane | 8 | 8 | 40% | No recorded overlap | 6m 24s | 2012-11-20 |
| Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballsexplainer · NumbersUSA | 7 | 7 | 58% | No recorded overlap | 6m 8s | 2010-09-10 |
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 “Replacement.ai”. Its short rationale: Cited for data that work hours rose after the industrial revolution.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Jules: An asynchronous coding agent”. Its short rationale: Shows we work more hours than medieval peasants did.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “X’s director of engineering, Haofei Wang, has left the company”. Its short rationale: Excellent history of work and how it came to be.