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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Secret Project: The Planetary Datalinks
matsku84 · 1 HN recommenders · 1 recommendation months
Recommended by 1 Hacker News commenters across 1 months (2013–2020).
SignalTube analysis
There are too few matching other videos tagged Game history & retro gaming for a stable peer comparison. This video has 1 distinct HN recommender across 1 recommendation month. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
33% of its 3 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2013–2020; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 0 minutes 41 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2006-10-17.
- Channel / speaker
- matsku84
- Verified runtime
- 0m 41s
- YouTube upload date
- 2006-10-17
- Hacker News mention years
- 2013–2020
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other other videos in Game history & retro gaming. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Secret Project: The Planetary DatalinksCurrent video | 1 | 1 | 33% | — | 0m 41s | 2006-10-17 |
| Alpha Centauri Quotes: Intro and Tech's 0-24other · uvwar | 3 | 3 | 75% | 1 (100%) | 9m 50s | 2008-01-10 |
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 strong recommendation in “The Collective Body: Russian experiments in life after death”. Its short rationale: Alpha Centauri project videos as top sci-fi writing, with a prescient quote.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Recovery of Lost Indigenous Languages by Optical Scanning of Old Wax Cylinders”. Its short rationale: Quotes Alpha Centauri on free information flow to argue against secrecy.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies in broad secret program”. Its short rationale: Source of the quote about information freedom, from Alpha Centauri.