tutorial · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
How does a USB keyboard work?
Ben Eater · 7 HN recommenders · 6 recommendation months
Recommended by 7 Hacker News commenters across 6 months (2021–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 22 other tutorial videos tagged Electronics & circuit design, the mean is 2.9 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 7 distinct HN recommenders, about 2.4× that mean. Recommendations span 6 distinct months, longer than the peer average of 2.8 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
58% of its 12 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 34 minutes 15 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2021-06-05.
- Channel / speaker
- Ben Eater
- Verified runtime
- 34m 15s
- YouTube upload date
- 2021-06-05
- Hacker News mention years
- 2021–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other tutorial videos in Electronics & circuit 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| How does a USB keyboard work?Current video | 7 | 6 | 58% | — | 34m 15s | 2021-06-05 |
| “Hello, world” from scratch on a 6502 — Part 1tutorial · Ben Eater | 11 | 11 | 100% | No recorded overlap | 27m 25s | 2019-09-14 |
| The world's worst video card?tutorial · Ben Eater | 8 | 7 | 57% | No recorded overlap | 32m 47s | 2019-07-05 |
| 8-bit CPU control logic: Part 1tutorial · Ben Eater | 3 | 3 | 75% | No recorded overlap | 27m 52s | 2017-04-16 |
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 “Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers”. Its short rationale: Shows USB 1.1 isn't that complicated.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “Only buy a magnetic keyboard for gaming”. Its short rationale: Fantastic breakdown of USB polling.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Measured typing latency of popular terminal emulators”. Its short rationale: Supports claim on high-speed USB keyboard parity.