Top Hackernews posts from www.openculture.com

  1. In 1886, the US commissioned watercolor paintings of every known fruit (2019) (www.openculture.com)
    633 points by perihelions 11 months ago | 150 comments
  2. 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work (www.openculture.com)
    560 points by bryanrasmussen over 2 years ago | 400 comments
  3. The Getty makes nearly 88k art images free to use (www.openculture.com)
    479 points by coloneltcb 6 months ago | 132 comments
  4. UCLA Study Finds Laughter in 65 Species, from Rats to Cows (www.openculture.com)
    470 points by cdepman over 2 years ago | 194 comments
  5. “When we all have pocket telephones” (www.openculture.com)
    334 points by mayiplease almost 2 years ago | 202 comments
  6. Daisugi, the 600-year-old Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (www.openculture.com)
    301 points by known over 3 years ago | 171 comments
  7. The first webcam was invented to keep an eye on a coffee pot (www.openculture.com)
    295 points by elorant about 3 years ago | 119 comments
  8. Akira Kurosawa’s List of His 100 Favorite Movies (2015) (www.openculture.com)
    287 points by lermontov over 3 years ago | 124 comments
  9. Hear the World’s Oldest Known Song, “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” Written 3400 Years Ago (www.openculture.com)
    273 points by thund about 2 years ago | 102 comments
  10. An Origami Samurai Made from a Single Sheet of Rice Paper (www.openculture.com)
    264 points by simonebrunozzi almost 3 years ago | 23 comments
  11. Bell Telephone launched a mobile phone during the 1940s (www.openculture.com)
    251 points by miles over 1 year ago | 100 comments
  12. Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020) (www.openculture.com)
    246 points by quyleanh 12 months ago | 102 comments
  13. Home Taping Is Killing Music: When the music industry waged war on the cassette (www.openculture.com)
    244 points by rcarmo about 1 year ago | 382 comments
  14. French artists in 1899 envisioned what life would look like in the year 2000 (www.openculture.com)
    242 points by gslin 7 months ago | 140 comments
  15. Kraftwerk issued their own pocket calculator synthesizer (2019) (www.openculture.com)
    222 points by layer8 about 1 year ago | 49 comments
  16. What’s Entering Public Domain in 2021: The Great Gatsby, Music by Duke Ellington (www.openculture.com)
    219 points by danso over 3 years ago | 71 comments
  17. Auroratone, a psychedelic 1940s film that helped WWII vets overcome PTSD (www.openculture.com)
    206 points by ZunarJ5 10 months ago | 36 comments
  18. Download Instructions for More Than 6,800 Lego Kits at the Internet Archive (www.openculture.com)
    205 points by rcarmo about 1 year ago | 43 comments
  19. “The most beautiful of all printed books,” the Kelmscott Chaucer (www.openculture.com)
    204 points by geox about 1 year ago | 39 comments
  20. 8-Part Film Adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina Is Free Online (www.openculture.com)
    195 points by georgecmu about 2 years ago | 182 comments
  21. Joni Mitchell learned to play guitar again after a 2015 brain aneurysm (www.openculture.com)
    189 points by revorad about 2 years ago | 74 comments
  22. Thelonious Monk’s Tips for Musicians (1960) (www.openculture.com)
    174 points by jynxxx over 1 year ago | 68 comments
  23. Chomsky explains why nobody is a moral relativist (www.openculture.com)
    174 points by gslin 12 months ago | 435 comments
  24. Free online courses from top universities (www.openculture.com)
    157 points by Tomte about 2 years ago | 7 comments
  25. A Guide to Color from 1692 (www.openculture.com)
    151 points by throw0101a over 3 years ago | 18 comments
  26. Medieval Bologna was full of tall towers (www.openculture.com)
    139 points by geox 4 months ago | 73 comments
  27. How writing has spread across the world (www.openculture.com)
    138 points by hackernj almost 2 years ago | 76 comments
  28. What Richard Feynman’s PhD Thesis Looks Like: A Video Introduction (2020) (www.openculture.com)
    133 points by paulpauper almost 3 years ago | 26 comments
  29. How the FBI targeted Camus, and then Sartre after the JFK assassination (2013) (www.openculture.com)
    128 points by pablode 8 months ago | 81 comments
  30. J.G. Ballard predicted the rise of social media (2016) (www.openculture.com)
    123 points by ecliptik 4 months ago | 55 comments
  31. Umberto Eco on common features of fascism (2016) (www.openculture.com)
    116 points by Anon84 over 2 years ago | 155 comments
  32. In 1997, Wired Predicts Things That Could Go Wrong in the 21st Century (2021) (www.openculture.com)
    105 points by kpennell over 2 years ago | 119 comments
  33. A 1970s boardgame takes about 1,500 hours to complete (www.openculture.com)
    103 points by gaws over 2 years ago | 73 comments
  34. Google app analyzes selfies and finds doppelgangers in museum portraits (2018) (www.openculture.com)
    91 points by BerislavLopac over 3 years ago | 62 comments
  35. William Gibson Predicts in 1997 How the Internet Will Change Our World (2019) (www.openculture.com)
    88 points by DanBC over 3 years ago | 31 comments
  36. Aleister Crowley and William Butler Yeats get into an occult battle (2016) (www.openculture.com)
    80 points by GloomyBoots over 1 year ago | 114 comments
  37. Harry Beck’s 1933 London Tube Map (www.openculture.com)
    78 points by simonebrunozzi over 2 years ago | 31 comments
  38. More Than 400 Classic Korean Films Free Online Thanks to the Korean Film Archive (www.openculture.com)
    77 points by ingve over 3 years ago | 10 comments
  39. The LSD Museum (2021) (www.openculture.com)
    64 points by prismatic about 1 year ago | 25 comments
  40. Noam Chomsky on ChatGPT: High-Tech Plagiarism, Way of Avoiding Learning (www.openculture.com)
    57 points by brianmcgee over 1 year ago | 127 comments