Top Hackernews posts from publicdomainreview.org

  1. What will enter the public domain in 2024? (publicdomainreview.org)
    345 points by WallyFunk 9 months ago | 193 comments
  2. What will enter the public domain in 2022 (publicdomainreview.org)
    309 points by Amorymeltzer almost 3 years ago | 230 comments
  3. All sound recordings prior to 1923 will enter the US public domain in 2022 (publicdomainreview.org)
    248 points by Amorymeltzer almost 3 years ago | 228 comments
  4. Happy Public Domain Day (publicdomainreview.org)
    172 points by sacrosanct 9 months ago | 38 comments
  5. Flowers of Fire: Illustrations from Japanese Fireworks Catalogues (ca. 1880s) (publicdomainreview.org)
    138 points by benbreen about 3 years ago | 10 comments
  6. Pantographia: 1799 specimen book of all the known alphabets (publicdomainreview.org)
    132 points by prismatic 11 months ago | 33 comments
  7. Lewis Carroll’s Illustrations for “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground” (1864) (publicdomainreview.org)
    128 points by prismatic about 3 years ago | 12 comments
  8. Images of Hatha Yoga from the Joga Pradīpikā (19th Century) (publicdomainreview.org)
    117 points by Thevet over 3 years ago | 71 comments
  9. The Defenestrations of Prague (1419–1997) (publicdomainreview.org)
    96 points by benbreen 6 months ago | 80 comments
  10. A treatise concerning the properties and effects of coffee (1792) (publicdomainreview.org)
    90 points by tintinnabula over 1 year ago | 25 comments
  11. Designs from Kimono Pattern Books (ca. 1902) (publicdomainreview.org)
    86 points by prismatic almost 3 years ago | 4 comments
  12. The City That Fell Off a Cliff (publicdomainreview.org)
    86 points by benbreen over 1 year ago | 24 comments
  13. A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words (1860) (publicdomainreview.org)
    85 points by benbreen 12 months ago | 28 comments
  14. An Essay on Diseases Incidental to Literary and Sedentary Persons (1768) (publicdomainreview.org)
    85 points by Vigier over 1 year ago | 63 comments
  15. The Art of Whaling: Illustrations from the Logbooks of Nantucket Whaleships (publicdomainreview.org)
    81 points by vo2maxer over 3 years ago | 29 comments
  16. Snowball Fights in Art (1400–1946) (publicdomainreview.org)
    77 points by pepys almost 3 years ago | 12 comments
  17. Early Illustrations of the Nervous System (publicdomainreview.org)
    76 points by prismatic over 3 years ago | 6 comments
  18. Books fatal to their authors (1895) (publicdomainreview.org)
    74 points by drdee 9 months ago | 12 comments
  19. Aftershock of the New: Woodblock Prints of Post-Disaster Tokyo (1928–32) (publicdomainreview.org)
    71 points by lermontov 11 months ago | 9 comments
  20. The Emancipatory Visions of a Sex Magician (publicdomainreview.org)
    69 points by Caiero over 1 year ago | 29 comments
  21. The Early History of the Channel Tunnel (publicdomainreview.org)
    69 points by Petiver 8 months ago | 23 comments
  22. Eugène-François Vidocq and the Birth of the Detective (publicdomainreview.org)
    68 points by Thevet 7 months ago | 6 comments
  23. A Bestiary of Loss (publicdomainreview.org)
    66 points by Thevet almost 2 years ago | 27 comments
  24. Solitary Confinement's Unlikely Origins (publicdomainreview.org)
    65 points by tintinnabula 11 months ago | 64 comments
  25. The Ether Dreams of Fin-de-Siècle Paris (publicdomainreview.org)
    65 points by prismatic over 1 year ago | discuss
  26. Reciting Pictures: Buddhist Texts for the Illiterate (publicdomainreview.org)
    59 points by lermontov over 2 years ago | 11 comments
  27. Out on the Town: Magnus Hirschfeld and Berlin’s Third Sex (publicdomainreview.org)
    59 points by prismatic over 2 years ago | 9 comments
  28. Medieval Illustrations of Bonnacons (publicdomainreview.org)
    56 points by benbreen over 1 year ago | 5 comments
  29. From Fire Hazards to Family Trees: The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (publicdomainreview.org)
    54 points by prismatic 3 months ago | 6 comments
  30. Liquid Bewitchment: Gin Drinking in England, 1700–1850 (publicdomainreview.org)
    53 points by pepys about 1 year ago | 25 comments
  31. Tales of the Catfish God: Earthquakes in Japanese Woodblock Prints (1855) (publicdomainreview.org)
    53 points by Caiero 6 months ago | 1 comments
  32. Adolf Schmidt’s Atlas der Diatomaceenkunde (1890) (publicdomainreview.org)
    52 points by benbreen almost 3 years ago | 5 comments
  33. Images from the Collective Unconscious: The Eranos Archive (publicdomainreview.org)
    52 points by apollinaire over 1 year ago | 2 comments
  34. William Hogarth’s Satire on False Perspective (1754) (publicdomainreview.org)
    51 points by benbreen over 3 years ago | 7 comments
  35. In Search of True Color: Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky’s Flawed Images (publicdomainreview.org)
    51 points by benbreen almost 2 years ago | 8 comments
  36. Solid Objects: 16th-Century Geometric and Perspective Drawings (publicdomainreview.org)
    50 points by benbreen about 3 years ago | 4 comments
  37. Postures of Transport: Sex, God, and Rocking Chairs (publicdomainreview.org)
    50 points by breathenow over 3 years ago | 1 comments
  38. Flemish Proverbs by Jan Wierix (ca. 1568) (publicdomainreview.org)
    50 points by Hooke 6 months ago | 13 comments