A museum API flags art "not viewed much" — and the moment you look, you disqualify it (iamwillwang.com)
Will Wang spotlights `has_not_been_viewed_much` — under 200 views since Jan 2010 — in the museum's public API, as an invitation to discover overlooked works rather than a finished app.
The thread names the observer paradox — look, and the count ticks up — and remembers Forgotify, the site that played only zero-listen Spotify songs and thereby deleted them from its own pool.
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