talk · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Paul Graham at Startup School 08
startupschool · 4 HN recommenders · 4 recommendation months
Recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 4 months (2010–2018).
SignalTube analysis
Among 33 other talk videos tagged Startups & entrepreneurship, the mean is 3.3 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 4 distinct HN recommenders, about 1.2× that mean. Recommendations span 4 distinct months; the peer average is 3.1 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
67% of its 6 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2010–2018; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 30 minutes 33 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2009-01-30.
- Channel / speaker
- startupschool
- Verified runtime
- 30m 33s
- YouTube upload date
- 2009-01-30
- Hacker News mention years
- 2010–2018
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other talk videos in Startups & entrepreneurship. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Graham at Startup School 08Current video | 4 | 4 | 67% | — | 30m 33s | 2009-01-30 |
| Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business with Jason Cohentalk · Rob Walling | 13 | 11 | 65% | No recorded overlap | 65m 37s | 2019-12-04 |
| Mike Monteiro: F*ck You, Pay Metalk · CreativeMornings HQ | 12 | 9 | 60% | No recorded overlap | 37m 54s | 2012-07-07 |
| David Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08talk · startupschool | 8 | 8 | 40% | No recorded overlap | 31m 56s | 2008-11-11 |
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 “Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?”. Its short rationale: Entry in a favorite tech talks list.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Octopart (YC W07) is Joining Altium”. Its short rationale: Graham talks about being good, not just not evil.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People”. Its short rationale: Graham's 'Be Good' talk on why being good is strategically superior.