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Matthew Lincoln
Personal blog · matthewlincoln.net · on HN as mdlincolndataculture
Matthew Lincoln's personal blog at matthewlincoln.net covers data and culture. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “All the Rijksmuseum images in a BitTorrent file”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-04-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite this blog's 2015 post on a torrent of Rijksmuseum images and metadata, put together by an art history researcher, as an example of collections shared outside official channels.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- All the Rijksmuseum images in a BitTorrent file3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-10-19
What Hacker News says?
Some years ago they also released a bunch of images, a kind person made the effort to put them into a torrent: http://matthewlincoln.net/2015/10/19/the-rijksmuseum-as-bitt... It'd be nice if museums could do that work themselves, when they can do the work to make an API. No I won't make an account.
Comment linking /2015/10/19/the-rijksmuseum-as-bittorrent.html
on “Over 700k paintings from the Rijksmuseum online copyright free”Submitted Confabulation in the humanities as a story · 59 points
HN discussionHere's an example torrent of metadata and images from the Rijksmuseum put together by an art history researcher: http://matthewlincoln.net/2015/10/19/the-rijksmuseum-as-bitt...
Comment linking /2015/10/19/the-rijksmuseum-as-bittorrent.html
on “The Met Makes 375k Images Available for Free”Submitted Scraping the Smithsonian (2013) as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted All the Rijksmuseum images in a BitTorrent file as a story · 2 points
HN discussion