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aamoviebb · 2 HN recommenders · 2 recommendation months
Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 months (2014–2026).
SignalTube analysis
Among 51 other demo videos tagged GUI, HCI & interface history, the mean is 1.5 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 2 distinct HN recommenders, about 1.3× that mean. Recommendations span 2 distinct months; the peer average is 1.7 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
17% of its 12 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2014–2026; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 17 minutes 34 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2011-04-23.
- Channel / speaker
- aamoviebb
- Verified runtime
- 17m 34s
- YouTube upload date
- 2011-04-23
- Hacker News mention years
- 2014–2026
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other demo videos in GUI, HCI & interface history. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leap TechnologyCurrent video | 2 | 2 | 17% | — | 17m 34s | 2011-04-23 |
| The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)demo · Marcel | 8 | 8 | 40% | No recorded overlap | 100m 53s | 2012-07-09 |
| Alan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at "Intertwingled" Festivaldemo · TheTedNelson | 7 | 10 | 55% | No recorded overlap | 17m 33s | 2014-11-01 |
| Ivan Sutherland Sketchpad Demo 1963demo · Interface Studies | 5 | 5 | 38% | No recorded overlap | 19m 20s | 2012-05-30 |
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 contextual reference in “Macs Since 1983”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Preliminary Macintosh Business Plan (12 July 1981) [pdf]”. Its short rationale: Advertising video showing text editing on the Canon Cat.