Tantacrul: 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 Software & Bad Interface Design: Avid’s Sibelius", recommended as the most entertaining serious critique of a software interface, and a crash course in UX mistakes.
- 8 HN recommenders 8 months 2019–2026commentaryRecommended as the most entertaining serious critique of a software interface, and a crash course in UX mistakes.
- 6 HN recommenders 6 months 2023–2026documentaryRepeatedly recommended as the definitive, well-made explanation of why attempts to reinvent music notation fail and what tradeoffs the current system makes.
- 5 HN recommenders 5 months 2021–2024explainerHN recommends it as an entertaining look at how hard notation fonts are to make, and it comes up in threads on music engraving and open source.
- 4 HN recommenders 4 months 2019–2024commentaryCited as a funny, informative teardown of bad interface design, and for the story that MuseScore hired him as head of design afterward.
- 4 HN recommenders 3 months 2022–2026documentaryRecommended as a candid, in-depth look at hard UX redesign work and the limits of MIDI for notation.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2020–2024commentaryRecommended as an incisive look at the real potential and common misuse of data sonification, often brought up in threads on space sonifications.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2020–2021commentaryHN recommends it as a rigorous, entertaining example of interface design review and notes the author later became head of design at MuseScore.
- 2 HN recommenders 1 months 2021–2022commentaryRecommended as a sharp piece of media criticism by a well-liked music YouTuber, and cited for the concept of reification.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2019–2023commentaryHN uses it as a go-to critique of bland corporate music and as a punchline whenever a slick corporate video appears.
- 3 HN recommenders 1 months 2021–2023commentaryHN recommends it during the Muse Group acquisition controversy for its funny, pragmatic take on usability and open source stewardship.
Questions
Which Tantacrul video does Hacker News recommend most?
Music Software & Bad Interface Design: Avid’s Sibelius: recommended in 8 different months by 8 HN users between 2019 and 2026.
Is this every Tantacrul 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.
Video list and Hacker News comment labels from HackerTube (prompted by @karpathy), released under ODC-By 1.0, built on the open-index/hacker-news archive. Hacker News data is provided by Y Combinator; comments remain the work of their authors. Video titles, channel names and thumbnails belong to their creators and are shown via YouTube. HackerTube Watch is an unofficial edition. Data export of 2026-10-31.