vpro documentary: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Regreening the desert with John D. Liu | VPRO Documentary | 2012", hN cites it as the best-documented example of landscape-scale restoration working, with striking before and after footage from the Loess Plateau.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2019–2023documentaryHN cites it as the best-documented example of landscape-scale restoration working, with striking before and after footage from the Loess Plateau.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2013–2021documentaryHN recommends it as an insider-style look at quants and high-frequency trading and their effect on markets.
- cited 11× 0 months 2020–2022documentaryLinked as a reference in privacy and big tech threads for framing the business model of data extraction.
Questions
Which vpro documentary video does Hacker News recommend most?
Regreening the desert with John D. Liu | VPRO Documentary | 2012: recommended in 2 different months by 2 HN users between 2019 and 2023.
Is this every vpro documentary 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.