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Alan Kay on Linux
Jack · 0 HN recommenders · 0 recommendation months
Recommended by 0 Hacker News commenters across 0 months (2018–2026).
SignalTube analysis
Among 11 other commentary videos tagged Tech pioneers & interviews, the mean is 1.4 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 0 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 0 distinct months; the peer average is 1.2 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
0% of its 5 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2018–2026; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 0 minutes 38 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2014-04-08.
- Channel / speaker
- Jack
- Verified runtime
- 0m 38s
- YouTube upload date
- 2014-04-08
- Hacker News mention years
- 2018–2026
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
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The comparison cohort uses other commentary videos in Tech pioneers & interviews. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alan Kay on LinuxCurrent video | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | 0m 38s | 2014-04-08 |
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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 “Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “What have we lost? – Demo of exotic OSes (2021) [video]”. Its short rationale: Alan Kay's dislike of Linux.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.