Clickspring: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Building The World's First Computer - Greeks, Clocks and Rockets - Antikythera Mechanism Episode 1", hN repeatedly recommends the series for its extraordinary craftsmanship and its credible demonstration of how the mechanism could have been made.
- 7 HN recommenders 5 months 2018–2024documentaryHN repeatedly recommends the series for its extraordinary craftsmanship and its credible demonstration of how the mechanism could have been made.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2017–2024tutorialRecommended as an absorbing masterpiece of craftsmanship, often raised in threads about watches and clockmaking.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2020–2022demoRecommended as a beautiful explanation of how the mechanism models the Moon's uneven motion.
Questions
Which Clickspring video does Hacker News recommend most?
Building The World's First Computer - Greeks, Clocks and Rockets - Antikythera Mechanism Episode 1: recommended in 5 different months by 7 HN users between 2018 and 2024.
Is this every Clickspring 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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