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Hacker News AI· dvorak007·· 19 days agoAI score28

Show HN: Spend Extra AI Usage Transcribing Murray's New English Dictionary

Show HN: Spend Extra AI Usage Transcribing Murray's New English Dictionary

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A GitHub repository invites people to point an AI coding agent at it to transcribe scans of Murray's New English Dictionary (1888–1928) into public-domain text, with all materials released under CC0 1.0. As of a 2026-10-27 snapshot, 117 page files exist under text/, all in volume 01-AB (scans 25–141): 112 draft, 3 partial, and 2 ok. Contributors need a GitHub account, git, uv, qpdf, curl, gh, and an AI agent that can run shell commands and read PDF pages, following AGENTS.md and claiming scan ranges via draft pull requests.

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