comedy · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Do you know this guy? | Internet Explorer
internetexplorer · 3 HN recommenders · 2 recommendation months
Recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 2 months (2012–2013).
SignalTube analysis
Among 13 other comedy videos tagged Tech company stories & documentaries, the mean is 0.1 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 3 distinct HN recommenders, about 39.0× that mean. Recommendations span 2 distinct months; the peer average is 0.1 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
50% of its 6 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2012–2013; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 1 minutes 54 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2012-11-29.
- Channel / speaker
- internetexplorer
- Verified runtime
- 1m 54s
- YouTube upload date
- 2012-11-29
- Hacker News mention years
- 2012–2013
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other comedy videos in Tech company stories & documentaries. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Do you know this guy? | Internet ExplorerCurrent video | 3 | 2 | 50% | — | 1m 54s | 2012-11-29 |
| Steve Ballmer Going Crazy on Stagecomedy · BestTechChannel | 1 | 1 | 17% | No recorded overlap | 2m 57s | 2011-12-14 |
| The New Mactini - BBCcomedy · BBC | 0 | 0 | 0% | No recorded overlap | 1m 38s | 2008-12-15 |
| Developerscomedy · 1doony4u | 0 | 0 | 0% | No recorded overlap | 3m 2s | 2006-01-25 |
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 “Internet Explorer 11: “Don’t call me IE””. Its short rationale: Funny Microsoft ad aimed at web developers.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Microsoft hires designer behind "The Next Microsoft", Andrew Kim”. Its short rationale: Microsoft ad acknowledging how bad IE used to be.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Microsoft's DroidRage Twitter campaign goes painfully wrong”. Its short rationale: Humorous IE10 ad as part of Microsoft's improved campaigns.