explainer · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
One Typo, Wrong Continent
CGP Grey · 2 HN recommenders · 2 recommendation months
Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 months (2022–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 27 other explainer videos tagged Aviation & aerospace engineering, the mean is 3.7 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 2 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 2 distinct months; the peer average is 2.9 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
67% of its 3 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2022–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 16 minutes 4 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2022-12-02.
- Channel / speaker
- CGP Grey
- Verified runtime
- 16m 4s
- YouTube upload date
- 2022-12-02
- Hacker News mention years
- 2022–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Aviation & aerospace engineering. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| One Typo, Wrong ContinentCurrent video | 2 | 2 | 67% | — | 16m 4s | 2022-12-02 |
| Mars Helicopter (before it went to Mars)explainer · Veritasium | 10 | 4 | 79% | No recorded overlap | 16m 1s | 2019-08-10 |
| The Fastest Way to Board a Plane Feels Like the Slowestexplainer · CGP Grey | 9 | 6 | 69% | No recorded overlap | 8m 28s | 2019-02-04 |
| Zipline - How Rwanda Built A Drone Delivery Serviceexplainer · Real Engineering | 9 | 6 | 69% | No recorded overlap | 11m 46s | 2019-01-25 |
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 “Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation”. Its short rationale: Summary of messy airport codes with reasons for the quirks.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Air traffic failure caused by two locations 3600nm apart sharing 3-letter code”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Airport Runway Names Shift with Magnetic Field”. Its short rationale: Fascinating explanation of airport codes.