Historia Civilis: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Work.", hN uses it in work-hours and four-day-week threads as the source for the claim that people worked fewer hours before the industrial era.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2023–2025explainerHN uses it in work-hours and four-day-week threads as the source for the claim that people worked fewer hours before the industrial era.
- 4 HN recommenders 3 months 2021–2024explainerRecommended as an entertaining and well-explained account of why our calendar looks the way it does.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2018–2026explainerRecommended in governance threads for showing how randomness and short terms prevented power concentration.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2018–2025explainerHN recommends it for anyone interested in legal systems, governance, or history.
Questions
Which Historia Civilis video does Hacker News recommend most?
Work.: recommended in 3 different months by 3 HN users between 2023 and 2025.
Is this every Historia Civilis 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.