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Shouting in the Datacenter
Bryan Cantrill · 4 HN recommenders · 4 recommendation months
Recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 4 months (2011–2026).
SignalTube analysis
Among 9 other demo videos tagged Software performance & optimization, the mean is 1.8 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 4 distinct HN recommenders, about 2.3× that mean. Recommendations span 4 distinct months; the peer average is 2.2 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
20% of its 20 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2011–2026; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 2 minutes 0 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2008-12-31.
- Channel / speaker
- Bryan Cantrill
- Verified runtime
- 2m 0s
- YouTube upload date
- 2008-12-31
- Hacker News mention years
- 2011–2026
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other demo videos in Software performance & optimization. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shouting in the DatacenterCurrent video | 4 | 4 | 20% | — | 2m 0s | 2008-12-31 |
| [EPILEPSY WARNING] How fast should an unoptimized terminal run?demo · Molly Rocket | 6 | 7 | 40% | No recorded overlap | 51m 4s | 2021-07-03 |
| Refterm v2 - Resource usage, binary splat, glyph sizing, and moredemo · Molly Rocket | 3 | 4 | 50% | No recorded overlap | 29m 51s | 2021-07-11 |
| Can you fit a whole game into a QR code?demo · MattKC | 2 | 2 | 29% | No recorded overlap | 20m 3s | 2020-07-31 |
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 “Why I Joined OpenAI”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.
The archive classifies this as a joke in “Leaving Intel”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.