IGN: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "John Carmack Keynote - Quakecon 2013", recommended to Carmack fans as the keynote with his functional programming adventures and for his fluent, wide-ranging talk.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2014–2021talkRecommended to Carmack fans as the keynote with his functional programming adventures and for his fluent, wide-ranging talk.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2016–2018interviewHN commenters point to it as a fantastic developer commentary on how Doom's first episode was made.
- cited 4× 0 months 2012–2026demoCited as a benchmark of what mobile graphics could do in 2010, against which later WebGL games are compared.
Questions
Which IGN video does Hacker News recommend most?
John Carmack Keynote - Quakecon 2013: recommended in 3 different months by 3 HN users between 2014 and 2021.
Is this every IGN 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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