Just professionally, I'm curious whether they derive has_not_been_viewed_much by some nightly cron process, by an insert trigger on a `user_image_viewed` table, or by some monstrous full table join that HN is currently obliterating.
ggm 6 hours ago [-]
I used to borrow the books which had "to be disposed if not lent in the next 3 months" slip in them. Never regretted reading them. The best one included a very odd short story by Flann OBrien about a carpenter who walls himself inside the oak panelling of a build he is working on, and a woman convinced Sago farming will cure Ireland's famine.
kreelman 5 hours ago [-]
This site is vaguely addictive in a dopamine feeding sense. What will the next image be? ...One more click won't hurt... :-)
ggm 4 hours ago [-]
200 clicks later...
I often find myself drowning in things like the Qld state library photo archives of the suburbs of Brisbane. They name street junctions which still exist, you pull up a modern photo in google maps, you look at the old one with Trams and wooden houses.. And another..
defrost 4 hours ago [-]
Ni bheidh ar leitheidi aris ann.
A line much abused in Myles na gCopaleen's (aka Brian O'Nolan's, aka Flann O'Brien's) An Béal Bocht (trans: The Poor Mouth)(1947)
I’m not sure what’s happening in this thread, but so happy to see Myles mentioned on HN. Every time I post one of De Selby’s research papers, it gets downvoted to oblivion for some reason.
inopinatus 2 hours ago [-]
My gateway drug was The Third Policeman, as read aloud by Patrick Magee on the wireless in 1986, a feat all the more remarkable for a man that was, quite appropriately, dead at the time.
ggm 4 hours ago [-]
There's two kinds of dark suckers. you've met the second kind. It's always saddened me I've been to Dublin 3 times and never made it to Dalkey.
I want to pay a courtesy caul..
osullish 23 minutes ago [-]
Dalkey is lovely, i used live there for a few years, but couldn't afford to buy a house there. Great to see Flann O'Brien in the comments - an under appreciated genius
anilakar 2 hours ago [-]
This feels like I am violating something that is sacred.
The last time I felt the same was when I accidentally found a Japanese Youtube channel that had tons of clips of konbini storefronts, a few seconds long each, most of them with zero views.
yreg 60 minutes ago [-]
As a konbini enthusiast whenever I leave my continent… Link for the konbini storefront channel?
Different print impression (probably not by the same woodblock?), but both are beatiful!
zem 10 minutes ago [-]
wow, that really is lovely. my favourite one so far.
livealife 4 hours ago [-]
so beautiful
Ogre 6 hours ago [-]
There used to be a site called Forgotify that would only play songs from Spotify that had zero listens. So each song played, of course, removed that song from the set that could ever be played by Forgotify. Doesn't look like it's around any more, sadly.
andai 5 hours ago [-]
There's a couple of those for YouTube.
https://vid404.com/ is for videos with zero views. It generates search queries for finding them.
For videos with low views there's https://petittube.com/ (loads a random video with low view count) and http://astronaut.io/ (which has an "automatic stream" of videos).
RossBencina 3 hours ago [-]
KVN AUST on YT hunts zero-view videos, sometimes entertaining.
dofm 6 hours ago [-]
Seems likely that Spotify is stuffed full of "songs" with zero listens now.
kombookcha 31 minutes ago [-]
Yeah, I think this is an unfortunate casualty of the AI age. Instead of discovering a weird fast food employee orientation CD or somebody's niche garage album from 1996 that was semi-accidentally uploaded by whoever happens to own it now, you're just getting thousands of fake songs made by bots.
rho4 15 minutes ago [-]
I just wish the variable was called "has_been_viewed_much".
zem 7 minutes ago [-]
why, though? the current version is the interesting property
djsavvy 5 hours ago [-]
This is awesome. It's interesting to me how it messes with my incentives. At first I was just pulling the lever on the slot machine, then I went back and clicked on the pieces I really liked (to mark them as "viewed" for the Art Institute and show some love), but finally realized that I was systematically working to remove my favorites from the pool of images people would see.
In the end I just clicked on the "refresh" button a few more times.
natosaichek 4 hours ago [-]
I remember reading a post by soneone who really liked imusic, i think, and the filter options it used to have.
They had a playlist that was "all songs with four or five stars that i haven't listened to in 4 years or more" or something like that. This person apparently had a massive music collection, so there were always a few nostalgic hits to listen to.
Arainach 1 hours ago [-]
How can we reconcile "viewed fewer than 200 times since 2010" with the absurd number of crawlers overloading the entire internet from every AI company out there?
jasongi 56 minutes ago [-]
Perhaps a quirk of the implementation - maybe the site doesn't server-side render links that lead to these items (though many bots run a full browser now), maybe they only track usage client-side or only in their mobile app.
Really moving piece. Great idea on the part of the API devs!
DanielVZ 5 hours ago [-]
My first art work was a drawing of a bunch of couches flying. I loved it. I came back here to comment about it without noticing I’d lose track of it. I tried searching in the collection but I couldn’t find it, so if anyone finds a sketch of a bunch of couches, I’d appreciate a link.
Somehow this made this experience even more wonderful.
c12 4 minutes ago [-]
If you clicked through and viewed the artwork details page then it will be in the "recently viewed" collection at the bottom of the page.
The irony is, that by drawing attention to these, especially on HN, they are likely to have the view numbers artificially increased, to a point where they no longer has_not_been_viewed_much
A new field is required…
dotancohen 1 hours ago [-]
There is no irony. Drawing attention to these works is likely the reason this bool was introduced in the first place.
Klathmon 8 hours ago [-]
How many of these images are there? I cycled through a few and ended up hitting at least one duplicate [1] that I do actually enjoy (but I can't find the name of it now that I refreshed the page, I know it had the verrazzano narrows bridge in the title)
Is there a chance a site like this could ruin their metric by inflating all the views for these lowest viewed items? Or do these not count?
Awesome user interface here: navigate away from the page and come back, and you will never see the thing you were looking at before.
Is this person trying to get hired at Google?
peesem 7 hours ago [-]
it keeps saying "failed to load" for me. through the magic of the developer console, i can see that the api calls are working but the actual image requests are not. it seems that this is a case of an overzealous cloudflare turnstile setup since if i open the image links in a new tab and pass a challenge i can view them.
peesem 7 hours ago [-]
if i turn off my vpn, it works, but the vpn is cloudflare's own WARP. strange
That cheesy Renaissance marble table not only hasn't been viewed much, but all the views were from a White House IP address 2017-2021 and 2025 to present.
jofzar 7 hours ago [-]
Cool project, it's actually a shame if it gets popular enough then it won't return anything
xmcp123 7 hours ago [-]
A shame but maybe also the point? If the under appreciated art is being viewed, that sounds great.
jofzar 6 hours ago [-]
It's more that they then go to the "low view" threshold then are no longer viewed and because the date is hard coded then it will never show any more.
I agree it's the point of the project but it's a bit of a shame someone could go to the site and see no art.
functionmouse 7 hours ago [-]
I wish I could click the picture to pop out scale to full 1x
thakoppno 7 hours ago [-]
there’s probably some decent arguments on how to implement this.
ChrisArchitect 7 hours ago [-]
Reminded me of least viewed pages on wikipedia collections or neglected articles...
See:
In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia (2022)
Gauguin, Manet, Rembrandt and Whistler sketches, Weston nudes, Harry Callahan photos, amazing things indeed.
People generally seem quite uninterested in preparatory sketches/studies/maquettes by famous artists, which is absolute madness, to my mind. Unfinished and transitory work is much more interesting to me. Photographers' contact sheets especially.
cindyllm 6 hours ago [-]
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NooneAtAll3 8 hours ago [-]
did it get hug of death?
wranglerjeans 2 hours ago [-]
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tupacshakur 2 hours ago [-]
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deepsun 2 hours ago [-]
But why? Seems like there's way more art than people need, just as there's way more music than people need. As a consequence, most artists aren't earning much (just as it's always been). Why would author welcomes us to artificially inflate click counts? For example, e-commerce stores don't like artificial reviews.
chr15m 1 hours ago [-]
Congratulations Citizen, you have complied with the mainthink.
Rendered at 08:01:12 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
I often find myself drowning in things like the Qld state library photo archives of the suburbs of Brisbane. They name street junctions which still exist, you pull up a modern photo in google maps, you look at the old one with Trams and wooden houses.. And another..
It translates as "Our likes will not be there again." and is originally from An toileánach (1929) - https://archive.org/details/toileanach0000ocro about remote island life.
I want to pay a courtesy caul..
The last time I felt the same was when I accidentally found a Japanese Youtube channel that had tons of clips of konbini storefronts, a few seconds long each, most of them with zero views.
https://nipponprints.com/images/tsuchiya-koitsu/summer-moon-...
(non-deeplink: https://nipponprints.com/tsuchiya-koitsu/summer-moon-at-miya... )
https://vid404.com/ is for videos with zero views. It generates search queries for finding them.
For videos with low views there's https://petittube.com/ (loads a random video with low view count) and http://astronaut.io/ (which has an "automatic stream" of videos).
In the end I just clicked on the "refresh" button a few more times.
They had a playlist that was "all songs with four or five stars that i haven't listened to in 4 years or more" or something like that. This person apparently had a massive music collection, so there were always a few nostalgic hits to listen to.
https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/813984c9-f0a6-c340-5e89-f1c00af...
Really moving piece. Great idea on the part of the API devs!
Somehow this made this experience even more wonderful.
A new field is required…
Is there a chance a site like this could ruin their metric by inflating all the views for these lowest viewed items? Or do these not count?
[1] https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/67395c18-c83c-865f-b0db-4736574...
Some, ahem, video sites, have "Popular videos". Of course the videos that end up there get more views and get even more popular...
It could obviously be fixed but I was more curious than anything
Is this person trying to get hired at Google?
I think I have an interest in Peruvian blackware now!! I mean... Look at this guy: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/6911/stirrup-spout-vessel-in-...
I agree it's the point of the project but it's a bit of a shame someone could go to the site and see no art.
See:
In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia (2022)
https://colinmorris.github.io/blog/unpopular-wiki-articles
(Some discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31524943, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37955600)
People generally seem quite uninterested in preparatory sketches/studies/maquettes by famous artists, which is absolute madness, to my mind. Unfinished and transitory work is much more interesting to me. Photographers' contact sheets especially.