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Why Electronic Voting is a BAD Idea - Computerphile
Computerphile · 7 HN recommenders · 6 recommendation months
Recommended by 7 Hacker News commenters across 6 months (2015–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 7 other explainer videos tagged Security & hacking, the mean is 2.7 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 7 distinct HN recommenders, about 2.6× that mean. Recommendations span 6 distinct months, longer than the peer average of 2.7 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
35% of its 20 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2015–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 8 minutes 21 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2014-12-18.
- Channel / speaker
- Computerphile
- Verified runtime
- 8m 21s
- YouTube upload date
- 2014-12-18
- Hacker News mention years
- 2015–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Security & hacking. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Why Electronic Voting is a BAD Idea - ComputerphileCurrent video | 7 | 6 | 35% | — | 8m 21s | 2014-12-18 |
| Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Ideaexplainer · Tom Scott | 11 | 11 | 55% | No recorded overlap | 12m 1s | 2019-12-09 |
| How to Design Impenetrable Airport Securityexplainer · Wendover Productions | 2 | 2 | 60% | No recorded overlap | 14m 18s | 2018-04-17 |
| Chip & PIN Fraud Explained - Computerphileexplainer · Computerphile | 2 | 2 | 67% | No recorded overlap | 8m 45s | 2015-10-14 |
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 “Tell HN: Azure outage”. Its short rationale: Tom Scott explains why not to use electronic or mail voting.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Brazilian hacker claims Bolsonaro asked him to hack into the 2022 voting system”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “It’s not still the early days of blockchain”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.