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Write for Your Readers Even If They Are Agents

https://commonsware.com/blog/2026/02/06/write-for-your-readers-even-if-they-are-agents.html
1•ingve•28s ago•0 comments

Knowledge-Creating LLMs

https://tecunningham.github.io/posts/2026-01-29-knowledge-creating-llms.html
1•salkahfi•1m ago•0 comments

Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow

https://font.subf.dev/en/
1•signa11•7m ago•0 comments

Sid Meier's System for Real-Time Music Composition and Synthesis

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5496962A/en
1•GaryBluto•15m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Slop News – HN front page now, but it's all slop

https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/slop-news
3•keepamovin•16m ago•1 comments

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1•justinlord•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bitcoin wallet on NXP SE050 secure element, Tor-only open source

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2•sickthecat•21m ago•1 comments

White House Explores Opening Antitrust Probe on Homebuilders

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-06/white-house-explores-opening-antitrust-probe-i...
1•petethomas•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MindDraft – AI task app with smart actions and auto expense tracking

https://minddraft.ai
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How do you estimate AI app development costs accurately?

1•insights123•27m ago•0 comments

Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 5

https://libroot.org/posts/going-through-snowden-documents-part-5/
1•goto1•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP Server for TradeStation

https://github.com/theelderwand/tradestation-mcp
1•theelderwand•30m ago•0 comments

Canada unveils auto industry plan in latest pivot away from US

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgd2j80klmo
2•breve•31m ago•1 comments

The essential Reinhold Niebuhr: selected essays and addresses

https://archive.org/details/essentialreinhol0000nieb
1•baxtr•34m ago•0 comments

Rentahuman.ai Turns Humans into On-Demand Labor for AI Agents

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1•tempodox•36m ago•0 comments

StovexGlobal – Compliance Gaps to Note

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1•AbduNebu•40m ago•0 comments

Trump says America should move on from Epstein – it may not be that easy

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4gj71z0m0o
6•tempodox•40m ago•2 comments

Tiny Clippy – A native Office Assistant built in Rust and egui

https://github.com/salva-imm/tiny-clippy
1•salvadorda656•44m ago•0 comments

LegalArgumentException: From Courtrooms to Clojure – Sen [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmMQbsOTX-o
1•adityaathalye•47m ago•0 comments

US moves to deport 5-year-old detained in Minnesota

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-moves-deport-5-year-old-detained-minnesota-2026-02-06/
8•petethomas•51m ago•3 comments

If you lose your passport in Austria, head for McDonald's Golden Arches

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1•thunderbong•55m ago•0 comments

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RFCs vs. READMEs: The Evolution of Protocols

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3•init0•1h ago•1 comments

Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines

https://altermag.com/articles/kanchipuram-saris-and-thinking-machines
1•trojanalert•1h ago•0 comments

Chinese chemical supplier causes global baby formula recall

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2•fkdk•1h ago•0 comments

I've used AI to write 100% of my code for a year as an engineer

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AI-native capabilities, a new API Catalog, and updated plans and pricing

https://blog.postman.com/new-capabilities-march-2026/
1•thunderbong•1h ago•0 comments

What changed in tech from 2010 to 2020?

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3•endorphine•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

M.C. Escher Prints Digitized and Put Online by the Boston Public Library

https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/dozens-of-m-c-escher-prints-have-been-digitized-put-online.html
47•robinhouston•2mo ago

Comments

ownlife•2mo ago
This is a great development -- it's surprisingly difficult to high quality scans of a lot of Escher's work.
yumraj•2mo ago
What would be the best way/source to get these printed , I mean framing and display worthy?

I’m assuming most home printers won’t be useful here.

rajangdavis•2mo ago
I've gotten a couple of posters and shirt from this store: https://mcescher.com/shop/
BashiBazouk•2mo ago
Back in the 80's I worked with a lady that had the north American rights for t-shirts in all things Escher. I did a good deal of the graphic arts photography (how you did prepess pre computer) for the t-shirts. got to handle the original prints of most of the common Eschers you see. They have amazing detail that you usually don't see in reproductions. I used to say a good looking halftone is a terrible halftone as part of it is compensating for ink spread. A deep black on a normal press is about 85% black, even more grey if it was going to newsprint. For the shirts we were down to 40-50% as there was considerable ink spread in the silkscreen process...
midnitewarrior•2mo ago
I had those shirts and I loved them, assuming they are the shirts that had multiple Escher designs over the whole shirt. I think I still have them in storage.
squigz•2mo ago
Direct link https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search?f%5Bcollection_na...
squigz•2mo ago
Also here's some info on downloading the full-res images https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/wbmkr2/mc_esch...
rerdavies•2mo ago
Very sad that their prints have discolored so badly.

For reasons that I cannot imagine, the Canadian National Art Gallery has a complete set of Escher prints that was bequeathed to the gallery by M.C. Escher himself.

If you ever get a chance to see them exhibited, you MUST do so. I have loved Escher prints, ever since I discovered them as a teenager. But seeing the actual prints in person is extraordinary. They were larger than I expected, and they display incredible craftsmanship that photographs do not convey at all -- beautiful paper, blindingly white, with broad white borders, crisp dense black ink, each one meticulously printed. As physical objects, they have gravitas and seriousness. Its is obvious that an enormous amount of effort went into producing perfect prints. Fun as photographs, but fiercely beautiful in person.

Unfortunately, for obvious reasons, the Canadian National Gallery does not display them often. I regularly visit the National Gallery, but I've only ever seen them once.

I wonder whether there are conservation steps that the Boston Public Library can take to deal with the discoloration.