top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-04-18

FBI overstated forensic hair matches in nearly all trials before 2000

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-forensic-hair-matches-in-nearly-all-criminal-trials-for-decades/2015/04/18/39c8d8c6-e515-11e4-b510-962fcfabc310_story.html

11 years ago

338 upvotes – 78 comments

PizzaHut still serves its first homepage

http://www.pizzahut.com/assets/pizzanet/home.html

11 years ago

248 upvotes – 123 comments

Tea with strangers

http://www.teawithstrangers.com/

11 years ago

181 upvotes – 91 comments

Einstein's Letter to Marie Curie (1911)

http://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol8-trans/34

11 years ago

174 upvotes – 30 comments

How Doomed is NetApp?

http://storagemojo.com/2015/04/13/how-doomed-is-netapp/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 67 comments

French Senate Backs Bid To Force Google To Disclose Search Algorithm Workings

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/17/french-senate-backs-bid-to-force-google-to-disclose-search-algorithm-workings/#.dpycrz:HNHc

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 216 comments

Ask HN: How do I find a mentor?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9400288

11 years ago

121 upvotes – 80 comments

Microsoft's partnership with Cyanogen Inc.

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/microsoft-google-cyanogen/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 47 comments

FBI conducts search by disrupting Internet service, posing as repairmen [pdf]

https://ia902603.us.archive.org/1/items/gov.uscourts.nvd.102542/gov.uscourts.nvd.102542.474.0.pdf

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 25 comments

Double-clicking on the Web

https://ma.ttias.be/double-clicking-on-the-web/

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 105 comments

Last.Backend – Visual Docker Containers Orchestration

http://www.lastbackend.com/?utm_source=hn&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=po-1

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 70 comments

‘Free-range’ parents plan to file lawsuit after police pick up children

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/free-range-parents-plan-to-file-lawsuit-after-police-pick-up-children/2015/04/14/ed4f7658-e2b7-11e4-b510-962fcfabc310_story.html

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 88 comments

About Liberland

http://liberland.org/en/about/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 90 comments

ANSI Art Collection from Old BBSs

http://artscene.textfiles.com/ansi/

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 28 comments

Leonardo da Vinci’s resume

http://www.cenedella.com/leonardo-da-vincis-resume-4

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 35 comments

A 1969 New Wave Sci-Fi Novel That Made Correct Predictions

http://www.themillions.com/2013/03/the-weird-1969-new-wave-sci-fi-novel-that-correctly-predicted-the-current-day.html

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 36 comments

Before Cuomo fund-raiser, state appeared to fast-track tax credit

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2015/04/8566199/cuomo-fund-raiser-state-appeared-fast-track-tax-credit

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 16 comments

The hacked Sony emails show how Silicon Valley dealmaking really works

http://qz.com/385742/the-hacked-sony-emails-show-how-silicon-valley-dealmaking-really-works/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 42 comments

Suicide Linux (2011)

http://qntm.org/suicide

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 55 comments

A Mysterious Death at the South Pole (2009)

http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/print-view/a-mysterious-death-at-the-south-pole-20131125

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 12 comments

Go Challenge 3: write a photo-mosaic generating web application

http://golang-challenge.com/go-challenge3/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 18 comments

Depression Confessional Culture Obscures the True Nature of Mental Illness

http://www.crikey.com.au/2015/04/02/rundle-depression-confessional-culture-obscures-the-true-nature-of-mental-illness/

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 35 comments

Europe v Google: Nothing to stand on

http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21648606-google

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 58 comments

Medical Emergencies In Space (1998)

http://chapters.marssociety.org/usa/oh/aero5.htm

11 years ago

67 upvotes – 6 comments

Prediction markets

http://www.gwern.net/Prediction%20markets

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: SeriesF – The Onion for Startup News

http://seriesf.com

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 15 comments

PTSD: The Wound That Never Heals

http://nautil.us/issue/23/dominoes/ptsd-the-wound-that-never-heals

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 20 comments

The Nanda Devi mystery – Plutonium lost on India’s second highest mountain

http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/3QfYqLadggrbnrn41H0mAJ/The-Nanda-Devi-mystery.html

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 10 comments

Games for Windows and the DirectX SDK on GitHub

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chuckw/archive/2015/04/18/github.aspx

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 23 comments

Ask HN: Could developers use the licensing model professional photographers use?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9398847

11 years ago

59 upvotes – 59 comments

“Barclays closed down my bank account after Bitcoin trade”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/11537972/Barclays-closed-down-my-bank-account-after-Bitcoin-trade.html

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 15 comments

Revolving Door: Ex-Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke Takes Job with Hedge Fund Citadel

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/04/ben-bernanke-isnt-the-problem-the-system-is-the-problem/390669/?single_page=true

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 32 comments

The photographers who refuse to abandon traditional film cameras

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32337778

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 105 comments

Why Are TV Ads So Danged Loud?

http://screenrant.com/why-are-tv-ads-so-danged-loud-brusimm-1426/

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 51 comments

How Star Wars Borrowed from Akira Kurosawa’s Great Samurai Films

http://www.openculture.com/2014/05/how-star-wars-borrowed-from-akira-kurosawas-great-samurai-films.html

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 29 comments

Rocket Lab's engine has electric turbos and 3D-printed primary components

http://www.rocketlabusa.com/index.html

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 34 comments

More Older Adults Are Becoming Inventors

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/18/your-money/more-older-adults-are-becoming-inventors.html

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 17 comments

Antisocial Behavior in Online Discussion Communities [pdf]

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.00680v1.pdf

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: What accomplishment are you most proud of?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9399339

11 years ago

44 upvotes – 61 comments

Case Study: Using Bitcoin Derivatives in Global Trade

https://blog.bitmex.com/case-study-using-bitcoin-derivatives-in-global-trade/

11 years ago

43 upvotes – 22 comments

Switching to Atom from Sublime Text

https://adcaes.wordpress.com/2015/04/18/switching-to-atom-from-sublime-text/

11 years ago

39 upvotes – 56 comments

Hevea Project – Flat tori finally visualized

http://math.univ-lyon1.fr/~borrelli/Hevea/Presse/index-en.html

11 years ago

39 upvotes – 12 comments
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