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Canon Cat
Storia Informatica · 1 HN recommenders · 1 recommendation months
Recommended by 1 Hacker News commenters across 1 months (2016–2024).
SignalTube analysis
Among 69 other demo videos tagged Demoscene & retrocomputing, the mean is 1.8 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 1 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 1 distinct month; the peer average is 1.9 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
25% of its 4 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2016–2024; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 6 minutes 15 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2014-03-03.
- Channel / speaker
- Storia Informatica
- Verified runtime
- 6m 15s
- YouTube upload date
- 2014-03-03
- Hacker News mention years
- 2016–2024
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other demo videos in Demoscene & retrocomputing. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canon CatCurrent video | 1 | 1 | 25% | — | 6m 15s | 2014-03-03 |
| A Mind Is Born (256 bytes)demo · lftkryo | 8 | 9 | 50% | No recorded overlap | 2m 22s | 2017-04-19 |
| elevated by Rgba & TBC | 4k intro (FullHD 1080p demoscene demo)demo · Demoscene High-Quality Videos (Annikras) | 7 | 10 | 67% | No recorded overlap | 3m 36s | 2011-06-26 |
| Elevated by RGBA and TBCdemo · BUTTONTANG | 7 | 7 | 58% | No recorded overlap | 3m 36s | 2009-04-12 |
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 “Preliminary Macintosh Business Plan (12 July 1981) [pdf]”. Its short rationale: Short informal demo showing what using a Cat is like.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again”. Its short rationale: Another Canon Cat video.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Leap Technology (keyboard vs. mouse on a Canon Cat machine, ca 1987)”. Its short rationale: More on the Canon Cat.