[HN Gopher] It's Their Mona Lisa
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It's Their Mona Lisa
Author : ramimac
Score : 64 points
Date : 2026-03-18 12:53 UTC (4 days ago)
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| ashwinnair99 wrote:
| Every culture has that one thing outsiders reduce to a joke or a
| meme. Rarely bothers to ask why it matters to the people it
| actually belongs to.
| ayaros wrote:
| What is the _Mona Lisa_ of Hacker News?
| thelibrarian wrote:
| Colin Percival (cperciva), upon being dismissed due to never
| having won a prestigious mathematical award such as a Putnam
| fellowship, revealing that he had in fact won a Putnam
| fellowship in 1999.
| argee wrote:
| Based on TFA, nothing. Since no has quoted anything as such.
| So, allow me.
|
| This [0] is the Mona Lisa of Hacker News. (Most favorited post
| circa 2020, though now that would likely be something else.)
|
| [0] https://jgthms.com/web-design-in-4-minutes/
| zem wrote:
| that's a lovely post, and I missed it when it came out, so
| thanks for that! but based on the logic in TFA I think an
| admin would have to make the claim for it to count.
| argee wrote:
| TFA has curator quotes, the users are largely the curators
| of HN, so it should work! I can't imagine the mods ever
| saying anything like that. Maybe someone like pg would.
| bitwize wrote:
| The guy who dismissed Dropbox.
| wiether wrote:
| Yes!
| fooker wrote:
| Has to be the dropbox comment
| ErroneousBosh wrote:
| What was the dropbox comment?
| nom wrote:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
| ErroneousBosh wrote:
| Yeesh.
|
| > It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating
|
| Yeah because that should be the end goal of everything
| right?
|
| And from the response:
|
| > 1. re: the first part, many people want something plug
| and play. and even if they were plug and play, the
| problem is that the user experience (on windows at least)
| with online drives generally sucks, and you don't have
| disconnected access.
|
| Bingo. I _am_ a really quite experienced Linux user (I
| 've been using it since it came on two floppy disks and
| didn't really work) and I too want things that are just
| plug-and-play. Time spent dicking about making things
| work is time not spend doing something fun, although I
| get that for some folk their goal in using Linux is to
| "Be Using Linux". For most of us I suspect that extends
| out to "Be Using Linux to solve problems we actually
| have, not just be using Linux for the sake of it".
| ggm wrote:
| I thought I saw "woman with a polecat" in the SF legion of honour
| gallery. Maybe it was on tour. (This is at least a decade ago and
| possibly more)
| petercooper wrote:
| Upon seeing the entry for Marie-Antoinette's private theater, I
| felt an urge to proclaim the _Amargosa Opera House_ as Death
| Valley 's "Mona Lisa". I was lucky enough to get a private tour
| and it was like stepping into one of the world's greatest works
| of art in the most bizarre of locations. The pictures don't do it
| justice but https://lenspire.zeiss.com/photo/en/article/mario-
| basner-cap...
| rawling wrote:
| I think the (OP) article has screwed up here. The article, and
| I think its original source, name a particular set from the
| theater as the palace's Mona Lisa. But the article has a
| picture of the theater itself, and even misnames the theater
| after the set.
|
| Tatler source: "This includes machinery that causes a tree to
| rise from a trapdoor and three sets - a simple interior, a
| forest and a temple of Minerva - the latter being the oldest
| intact decor in the world, dating back to 1754 - 'our own Mona
| Lisa,' said Masson."
|
| OP article: "What is it? The Temple of Minerva theater set
| (c.1754) from Marie-Antoinette's private theater."
|
| OP caption on picture of theater: "Temple of Minerva theater
| (c. 1754)"
| amarcheschi wrote:
| Well, in Florence there actually is a copy of the original Mona
| Lisa. It's just that nobody knows about it. It's in the first
| room of stibbert museum. I almost missed it
| exmadscientist wrote:
| Ah, Restoration Hardware. I've always thought the jwz quote
| applies perfectly to them: if I have a home furnishing problem,
| and I go to Restoration Hardware, now I have two problems. It's
| not enough to have their stores full of stuff I don't want,
| they've also got to turn them in to labyrinths too.
|
| The Mob Museum was great though.
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