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CppCon 2014: Mike Acton "Data-Oriented Design and C++"
CppCon · 9 HN recommenders · 9 recommendation months
Recommended by 9 Hacker News commenters across 9 months (2015–2026).
SignalTube analysis
Among 146 other talk videos tagged Software architecture & design, the mean is 4.2 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 9 distinct HN recommenders, about 2.2× that mean. Recommendations span 9 distinct months, longer than the peer average of 4.2 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
45% of its 20 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2015–2026; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 87 minutes 46 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2014-09-30.
- Channel / speaker
- CppCon
- Verified runtime
- 1h 27m 46s
- YouTube upload date
- 2014-09-30
- Hacker News mention years
- 2015–2026
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other talk videos in Software architecture & design. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CppCon 2014: Mike Acton "Data-Oriented Design and C++"Current video | 9 | 9 | 45% | — | 1h 27m 46s | 2014-09-30 |
| RailsConf 2014 - All the Little Things by Sandi Metztalk · Confreaks | 15 | 15 | 75% | No recorded overlap | 38m 47s | 2014-05-21 |
| "Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)talk · Strange Loop Conference | 14 | 14 | 70% | No recorded overlap | 61m 39s | 2021-09-02 |
| How To Design A Good API and Why it Matterstalk · Google TechTalks | 12 | 12 | 93% | No recorded overlap | 60m 19s | 2007-10-09 |
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 “Introduction to Data-Oriented Design [pdf]”. Its short rationale: Section defining what Acton means by data-oriented design.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu”. Its short rationale: Accessible introduction to thinking about performance in high throughput systems.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “Writing memory efficient C structs”. Its short rationale: Amazing talk on data-oriented design.