Ars Technica: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "How Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation | War Stories | Ars Technica", it is one of the most frequently recommended videos on HN for old-school game development hacks under tight hardware constraints.
- 13 HN recommenders 9 months 2020–2026interviewIt is one of the most frequently recommended videos on HN for old-school game development hacks under tight hardware constraints.
- 5 HN recommenders 4 months 2020–2026documentaryRepeatedly called essential viewing for game development history and clever work under memory constraints.
- 4 HN recommenders 4 months 2020–2024interviewHN commenters point to it as the first-person story of how Myst grew out of HyperCard and fit on CD-ROM, especially in threads about HyperCard and retro game constraints.
- 3 HN recommenders 4 months 2018–2026interviewHN uses it as a canonical anecdote that designers badly predicted player behavior, and in threads about UO and sharding.
- 4 HN recommenders 2 months 2020–2024interviewHN recommends it as a fascinating hacker war story, especially in threads on Naughty Dog's custom Lisp languages GOOL and GOAL.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2020–2023interviewRecommended for its insight into game design and cited as a vivid example of how tricky localization can be.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2020–2026interviewHN commenters recommend it as an accessible, non-technical look at real game pathfinding problems from a developer who built them.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2016–2017demoHN cites it as an early, quirky example of machine-generated screenplays and what LSTMs could do.
Questions
Which Ars Technica video does Hacker News recommend most?
How Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation | War Stories | Ars Technica: recommended in 9 different months by 13 HN users between 2020 and 2026.
Is this every Ars Technica 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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