TheDmel: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Aggressive Maneuvers for Autonomous Quadrotor Flight", cited as a landmark demonstration of how capable autonomous drones had become, mostly in threads about drone delivery, swarms and drone warfare.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2011–2017demoCited as a landmark demonstration of how capable autonomous drones had become, mostly in threads about drone delivery, swarms and drone warfare.
- cited 3× 0 months 2011–2018demoHN uses it as a go-to example of drones and robotics doing construction work.
- cited 4× 0 months 2013–2018demoHN refers to it as the viral university video that showed what autonomous multicopter swarms can do and helped spark interest in multicopters.
Questions
Which TheDmel video does Hacker News recommend most?
Aggressive Maneuvers for Autonomous Quadrotor Flight: recommended in 1 different months by 1 HN users between 2011 and 2017.
Is this every TheDmel 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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