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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

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2026862 stories
Damn fine tiny cafe↗ sandyuraz.com · HN · 63 comments · 397 points · Aug 28, 2026
Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing↗ daringfireball.net · HN · 731 comments · 825 points · Aug 16, 2026
New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag↗ smithsonianmag.com · HN · 550 comments · 571 points · May 03, 2026
1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)↗ hypertalking.com · HN · 93 comments · 615 points · Apr 22, 2026
Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13↗ openculture.com · HN · 172 comments · 372 points · Jan 16, 2026
20251,052 stories
Classical statues were not painted horribly↗ worksinprogress.co · HN · 332 comments · 631 points · Dec 18, 2025
Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio↗ bruno-simon.com · HN · 188 comments · 777 points · Dec 09, 2025
Marble Fountain↗ willmorrison.net · HN · 92 comments · 895 points · Nov 09, 2025
MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today↗ blog.decryption.net.au · HN · 196 comments · 1057 points · Jul 12, 2025
Doom, the Gallery Experience↗ bobatealee.itch.io · HN · 67 comments · 582 points · Jan 06, 2025
2024983 stories
Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week↗ simonwillison.net · HN · 465 comments · 637 points · Oct 23, 2024
Boris Vallejo and the pixel art of the demoscene↗ marincomics.com · HN · 118 comments · 495 points · Sep 30, 2024
The Art of Finishing↗ bytedrum.com · HN · 165 comments · 711 points · Sep 02, 2024
Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found↗ dfarq.homeip.net · HN · 219 comments · 496 points · Aug 05, 2024
On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney↗ catandgirl.com · HN · 908 comments · 757 points · Jan 16, 2024
20231,187 stories
Genuary 2024: Generative Art / Creative Coding Month↗ genuary.art · HN · 12 comments · 69 points · Dec 31, 2023
Claude Bragdon: Drawings of the Fourth Dimension (2022)↗ socks-studio.com · HN · 21 comments · 139 points · Dec 30, 2023
Learning to love to draw with Commander Mark↗ npr.org · HN · 13 comments · 80 points · Dec 29, 2023
North America: Hand-Drawn Portrait of a Continent↗ antonthomasart.com · HN · 2 comments · 86 points · Dec 24, 2023
In 1886, the US commissioned watercolor paintings of every known fruit (2019)↗ openculture.com · HN · 6 comments · 63 points · Nov 02, 2023
20221,115 stories
A Visual Guide to the Aztec Pantheon↗ pudding.cool · HN · 66 comments · 289 points · Jun 17, 2022
Rarely Seen Paintings by J.R.R. Tolkien↗ smithsonianmag.com · HN · 60 comments · 319 points · Jun 15, 2022
Watercolor Basics↗ github.com · HN · 76 comments · 240 points · Jun 15, 2022
The pre-Ghibli work of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata↗ vulture.com · HN · 37 comments · 237 points · Jun 12, 2022
Tolkien's Paintings↗ tolkienestate.com · HN · 68 comments · 381 points · Mar 22, 2022
20211,099 stories
Scan of the Month: Lego Minifigures↗ scanofthemonth.com · HN · 99 comments · 505 points · Nov 17, 2021
Art student’s 407-piece hand-carved wooden clock (2016)↗ ablogtowatch.com · HN · 74 comments · 512 points · Sep 05, 2021
Louvre makes its entire collection available online↗ collections.louvre.fr · HN · 205 comments · 932 points · Mar 27, 2021
Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany↗ demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net · HN · 136 comments · 1107 points · Mar 20, 2021
Over 700k paintings from the Rijksmuseum online copyright free↗ ianvisits.co.uk · HN · 147 comments · 434 points · Jan 21, 2021
20201,085 stories
Early Work↗ paulgraham.com · HN · 151 comments · 577 points · Oct 20, 2020
Chaos Ink↗ dev.scottdarby.com · HN · 82 comments · 390 points · Oct 17, 2020
No Paint↗ nopaint.art · HN · 96 comments · 443 points · Jun 17, 2020
Launch HN: Art in Res (YC W20) – Buy art directly from artists↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 220 comments · 410 points · Apr 09, 2020
Old book illustrations from the 19th and 20th centuries: an online database↗ openculture.com · HN · 50 comments · 386 points · Feb 13, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Show HN: A CC0 museum of retro 3D tricks you can paste into a page↗ 3d-retro.com · HN · 14 comments · 75 points · Sep 23, 2026
Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New↗ blog.archive.org · HN · 41 comments · 125 points · Sep 16, 2026
Damn fine tiny cafe↗ sandyuraz.com · HN · 63 comments · 397 points · Aug 28, 2026
Lucasart's Afterlife↗ togameforlife.wordpress.com · HN · 52 comments · 108 points · Sep 15, 2026
Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing↗ daringfireball.net · HN · 731 comments · 825 points · Aug 16, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

John Margolies' photographs of roadside America↗ publicdomainreview.org · HN · 44 comments · 135 points · Sep 04, 2026
Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New↗ blog.archive.org · HN · 41 comments · 125 points · Sep 16, 2026
The Computer Museum of America reclamation project↗ computer-museum.org · HN · 43 comments · 115 points · Aug 31, 2026
Lucasart's Afterlife↗ togameforlife.wordpress.com · HN · 52 comments · 108 points · Sep 15, 2026
Show HN: Art – draw one stroke, let symmetry complete it↗ mrdee.in · HN · 34 comments · 86 points · Sep 05, 2026
Show HN: A CC0 museum of retro 3D tricks you can paste into a page↗ 3d-retro.com · HN · 14 comments · 75 points · Sep 23, 2026
Accidental Aesthetics and Romance of Power Wires↗ governance.fyi · HN · 17 comments · 56 points · Aug 30, 2026
Deadpan Photography: Enjoying the Pretence↗ photoni.st · HN · 16 comments · 54 points · Sep 01, 2026
Herdr Studio↗ powerfooI.github.io · HN · 20 comments · 45 points · Sep 11, 2026
Community condemn Bedminster AI mural as 'insult' to artists↗ bbc.co.uk · HN · 28 comments · 37 points · Sep 23, 2026

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