Complete Digitization of Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus(openculture.com)

123 points by emmelaich 1 year ago | 39 comments

In 1886, the US commissioned watercolor paintings of every known fruit (2019)(openculture.com)

569 points by perihelions 3 years ago | 139 comments

Open Culture article about the USDA's 1886-era commissioned collection of 7,500 watercolor paintings of fruit, now downloadable in high resolution.

Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library(openculture.com)

290 points by Anon84 1 year ago | 114 comments

The Met releases high-def 3D scans of 140 famous art objects(openculture.com)

323 points by coloneltcb 7 months ago | 68 comments

Open Culture article reporting that the Metropolitan Museum of Art released high-definition 3D scans of 140 famous art objects, including sarcophagi, paintings and sculptures.

“The most beautiful of all printed books,” the Kelmscott Chaucer(openculture.com)

191 points by geox 3 years ago | 37 comments

The 18th-century French media stoked a werewolf panic(openculture.com)

74 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 21 comments

Why I Wrote PGP (1991, revised 1999)(philzimmermann.com)

174 points by GaryBluto 12 days ago | 65 comments

Phil Zimmermann's essay from the original 1991 PGP User's Guide, updated in 1999, explaining why he created PGP to protect the privacy of personal communications.

The art of high performance computing(theartofhpc.com)

566 points by rramadass 2 years ago | 97 comments

Landing page for The Art of HPC, a series of free textbooks on high performance computing by Victor Eijkhout of TACC.

Penpot: The Open-Source Figma(github.com)

724 points by selvan 11 months ago | 176 comments

GitHub repository for Penpot, an open-source design and prototyping tool for design and code collaboration, positioned as an alternative to Figma.

PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock(github.com)

487 points by Qision 1 month ago | 270 comments

GitHub repository for PipePipe, an open-source GPL-3.0 Android app forked from NewPipe for browsing YouTube and other services with SponsorBlock.

OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative(github.com)

417 points by nateb2022 1 year ago | 139 comments

GitHub repository for OpenCut, an MIT-licensed open-source video editor positioned as an alternative to CapCut.

Show HN: PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue(github.com)

350 points by jeeybee 2 years ago | 110 comments

GitHub repository for PgQueuer, a Python library that uses PostgreSQL and LISTEN/NOTIFY to implement an efficient job queue.