Tom Wildenhain: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint (SIGBOVIK)", hN repeatedly names it as one of the funniest and best talks, a favorite example of absurd computation.
- 8 HN recommenders 6 months 2017–2025talkHN repeatedly names it as one of the funniest and best talks, a favorite example of absurd computation.
- 4 HN recommenders 4 months 2020–2026lectureRepeatedly recommended in best-talks threads as a fun, mind-blowing demonstration of unexpected computation.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2018–2025demoHN people recommend it as an entertaining example of great effort on a trivial problem, and cite the template in LaTeX-versus-Word discussions.
Questions
Which Tom Wildenhain video does Hacker News recommend most?
On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint (SIGBOVIK): recommended in 6 different months by 8 HN users between 2017 and 2025.
Is this every Tom Wildenhain 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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