VintageCG: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Xerox Star User Interface (1982) 1 of 2", hN points to it as a look at an early GUI that did a lot with little learning curve, often to contrast it with modern software.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2011–2024demoHN points to it as a look at an early GUI that did a lot with little learning curve, often to contrast it with modern software.
- cited 3× 0 months 2013–2023demoHN shares it as a classic glimpse of early SGI hardware graphics in retro-computing and IRIX threads.
- cited 6× 0 months 2013–2022demoListed among historical GUI and Smalltalk videos and cited for early features such as math in word processing and the Mesa-programmed Star.
Questions
Which VintageCG video does Hacker News recommend most?
Xerox Star User Interface (1982) 1 of 2: recommended in 1 different months by 1 HN users between 2011 and 2024.
Is this every VintageCG 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.