Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹): the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Seminar with Alan Kay on Object Oriented Programming (VPRI 0246)", hN points to it as primary-source evidence of what Kay meant by objects, which resembled services and message passing rather than modern class-based OOP.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2017–2025lectureHN points to it as primary-source evidence of what Kay meant by objects, which resembled services and message passing rather than modern class-based OOP.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2018–2021demoHN cites it as early evidence that visual and interactive programming can go well beyond wire diagrams, in a Smalltalk and Alan Kay tradition.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2020–2026talkHN regards it as a must-watch that gives a very different perspective on software and the web, and its title is widely riffed on.
- cited 3× 0 months 2020–2022interviewHN cites it as Jobs's own account of what Apple took from Xerox and why Xerox failed.
Questions
Which Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹) video does Hacker News recommend most?
Seminar with Alan Kay on Object Oriented Programming (VPRI 0246): recommended in 2 different months by 2 HN users between 2017 and 2025.
Is this every Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹) 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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