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GENERAL MAGIC - Official Trailer
General Magic and the Soul of Tech · 2 HN recommenders · 2 recommendation months
Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 months (2021–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 30 other documentary videos tagged Tech company stories & documentaries, the mean is 2.9 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 2 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 2 distinct months; the peer average is 2.7 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
67% of its 3 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2021–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 2 minutes 26 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2018-07-11.
- Channel / speaker
- General Magic and the Soul of Tech
- Verified runtime
- 2m 26s
- YouTube upload date
- 2018-07-11
- Hacker News mention years
- 2021–2025
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Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other documentary videos in Tech company stories & documentaries. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GENERAL MAGIC - Official TrailerCurrent video | 2 | 2 | 67% | — | 2m 26s | 2018-07-11 |
| Micro Men - 720p (2009)documentary · gimpymoo | 15 | 14 | 75% | No recorded overlap | 84m 13s | 2013-07-28 |
| Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentarydocumentary · The Documentary Network | 13 | 12 | 68% | No recorded overlap | 56m 9s | 2013-08-12 |
| Disney's FastPass: A Complicated Historydocumentary · Defunctland | 7 | 4 | 88% | No recorded overlap | 103m 0s | 2021-11-21 |
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 “Microsoft Bob: Microsoft's biggest flop of the 1990s”. Its short rationale: Documentary on General Magic and the Magic Link device.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “He Built Apple's 1980s iPad Concept [video]”. Its short rationale: Documentary on General Magic's early attempt at building the iPhone.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus”. Its short rationale: Documentary about General Magic and the people behind early mobile computing.