documentary · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
The Great Wave - Part 1
David Bull · 4 HN recommenders · 4 recommendation months
Recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 4 months (2020–2026).
SignalTube analysis
Among 9 other documentary videos tagged Visual arts, photography & architecture, the mean is 2.7 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 4 distinct HN recommenders, about 1.5× that mean. Recommendations span 4 distinct months; the peer average is 2.7 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
100% of its 4 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2020–2026; 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
- David Bull
- Verified runtime
- Not verified in the current YouTube metadata
- YouTube upload date
- Not verified
- Hacker News mention years
- 2020–2026
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other documentary videos in Visual arts, photography & architecture. “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 Great Wave - Part 1Current video | 4 | 4 | 100% | — | Not verified in the current YouTube metadata | Not verified |
| 1. How Buildings Learn - Stewart Brand - 1 of 6 - “Flow”documentary · Stewart Brand | 8 | 8 | 80% | 1 (25%) | Not verified | Not verified |
| How Does Kodak Make Film? (Kodak Factory Tour Part 1 of 3) - Smarter Every Day 271documentary · SmarterEveryDay | 3 | 3 | 100% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence (2017)documentary · Wei Yu | 3 | 3 | 100% | 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 strong recommendation in “The Rediscovery of 103 Hokusai Lost Sketches (2021)”. Its short rationale: Ranks among the greatest long-form process videos.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “The 'Great Wave' has mystified art lovers for generations (2019)”. Its short rationale: Printer David Bull documents his 2015 reproduction of the Great Wave.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “Dutch museum says van Gogh painting stolen in overnight raid”. Its short rationale: Long series on reproducing the Great Wave as a print.