Adam Neely: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Music Theory and White Supremacy", hN recommends it as the canonical video on how music theory is really the theory of one Western tradition, with the raga example.
- 11 HN recommenders 11 months 2020–2024commentaryHN recommends it as the canonical video on how music theory is really the theory of one Western tradition, with the raga example.
- 6 HN recommenders 4 months 2021–2025explainerHN links it in threads on absolute pitch as a musician's useful summary of its downsides and age-related decline.
- 3 HN recommenders 4 months 2021–2022explainerHN points to it whenever the 432 Hz versus 440 Hz debate or tuning systems come up, and as an accessible entry point to music theory for non-musicians.
- 4 HN recommenders 3 months 2020–2022interviewIt is the go-to explainer whenever HN discusses brute-forcing melodies, copyright, or AI-generated content, since it features the project's creators.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2018–2020explainerHN commenters recommend it for its historical context on tuning systems and for how instruments influence what music gets composed.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2016–2025explainerCited as a short, fun introduction to the phenomenology of music and as an explanation and critique of vaporwave.
Questions
Which Adam Neely video does Hacker News recommend most?
Music Theory and White Supremacy: recommended in 11 different months by 11 HN users between 2020 and 2024.
Is this every Adam Neely video?
No. Only videos that at least three different HN users linked, in at least three different months, with at least a sentence of their own commentary. That filter is what makes the list useful.
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