top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-03-05

When the U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-force-discovered-the-flaw-of-averages.html

10 years ago

471 upvotes – 103 comments

Mr. Fart’s Favorite Colors

https://medium.com/@blakeross/mr-fart-s-favorite-colors-3177a406c775#.4b6z856uh

10 years ago

362 upvotes – 66 comments

Bitcoin transaction processing takes up to 10 hours

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-capacity-nightmare-fees-reality/

10 years ago

272 upvotes – 185 comments

“I've been working at Mozilla for many years, from peak to decline”

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8836539&cid=51642315

10 years ago

197 upvotes – 223 comments

The apt command: Combining apt-get and apt-cache and adds a progress bar (2014)

https://mvogt.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/apt-1-0/

10 years ago

175 upvotes – 74 comments

“I Helped 8 People Die”

http://torontolife.com/city/life/john-hofsess-assisted-suicide

10 years ago

166 upvotes – 71 comments

Ask HN: Which successful startups were rejected by YC?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11229700

10 years ago

159 upvotes – 60 comments

Man Convicted Based on Erroneous Evidence Exonerated After 25 Years

http://www.innocenceproject.org/news-events-exonerations/north-carolina-man-convicted-based-on-erroneous-microscopic-hair-evidence-exonerated-after-wrongly-serving-25-years

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 71 comments

Letters Helped Challenger Shuttle Engineer Shed 30 Years of Guilt

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/25/466555217/your-letters-helped-challenger-shuttle-engineer-shed-30-years-of-guilt

10 years ago

144 upvotes – 23 comments

Why I Left Oracle – A Confession

http://blog.rahmannet.net/2016/03/why-i-left-oracle.html

10 years ago

140 upvotes – 152 comments

Show HN: Start a pair programming session over WebRTC by just sharing a link

https://codecoachapp.com

10 years ago

131 upvotes – 40 comments

Google Posts

https://www.google.com/posts/

10 years ago

126 upvotes – 110 comments

The Linux Security Circus: On GUI Isolation (2011)

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/04/linux-security-circus-on-gui-isolation.html

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 84 comments

A plagiarism scandal is unfolding in the crossword puzzle world

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-plagiarism-scandal-is-unfolding-in-the-crossword-world/

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 41 comments

In defense of Unix

http://leancrew.com/all-this/2016/03/in-defense-of-unix/

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 185 comments

Some radical thoughts about Sci-Hub

https://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2016/03/03/some-radical-thoughts-about-scihub/

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 38 comments

Amazon Reverses Course, Encryption Returning for Fire Devices

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-05/amazon-reverses-course-encryption-returning-for-fire-devices

10 years ago

110 upvotes – 35 comments

Q&A: Andrew Ng

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_29596077/q-andrew-ng-chief-scientist-chinese-search-giant

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 39 comments

Peanut allergy theory backed up by new research

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35727244

10 years ago

99 upvotes – 47 comments

Ask HN: Book Recommendations?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11229312

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 81 comments

Do Psychedelic Drug Laws Violate Human Rights?

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/03/psychedelic-drugs/471603/?single_page=true

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 87 comments

Fighting cancer by putting tumor cells on a diet

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/03/05/468285545/fighting-cancer-by-putting-tumor-cells-on-a-diet

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 42 comments

What Happened, Miss Simone?

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/03/10/fierce-courage-nina-simone

10 years ago

88 upvotes – 15 comments

An OCaml/Mirage-friendly implementation of the Plan9 filesystem protocol

https://github.com/mirage/ocaml-9p

10 years ago

★ 67 OCaml ISC
85 upvotes – 11 comments

Political Correctness Devours yet Another College, Fighting Over Mini-Sombreros

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/party-culture/2016/03/03/fdb46cc4-e185-11e5-9c36-e1902f6b6571_story.html

10 years ago

83 upvotes – 84 comments

Driverless lorries to be trialled in UK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35737104

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 93 comments

Interview with Sid Meier

http://www.polygon.com/features/2016/3/4/11158134/the-man-who-made-a-million-empires

10 years ago

77 upvotes – 34 comments

Popular WordPress plugin comes with a backdoor, steals site admin credentials

http://news.softpedia.com/news/popular-wordpress-plugin-comes-with-a-backdoor-steals-site-admin-credentials-501383.shtml

10 years ago

75 upvotes – 29 comments

The Tatra 603: Wacky Commie Hot Rod

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2016/02/20/tatra-603-wacky-commie-hot-rod

10 years ago

74 upvotes – 25 comments

Stein's paradox in Statistics (1977) [pdf]

http://statweb.stanford.edu/~ckirby/brad/other/Article1977.pdf

10 years ago

69 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: Thunkable – A drag-and-drop tool for anyone to build native mobile apps

http://thunkable.com/

10 years ago

68 upvotes – 33 comments

Video Room 1000 – A video uploaded to YouTube 1,000 times (2010) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icruGcSsPp0

10 years ago

67 upvotes – 13 comments

Wuppertal Suspension Railway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Suspension_Railway

10 years ago

62 upvotes – 20 comments

String Interning Done Right

https://getkerf.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/string-interning-done-right/

10 years ago

56 upvotes – 12 comments

DB-19 Substitute, Take Two

http://www.bigmessowires.com/2016/02/23/db-19-substitute-take-two/

10 years ago

56 upvotes – 12 comments

Garnet – a graphical toolkit for Lisp

http://garnetlisp.sourceforge.net/

10 years ago

54 upvotes – 23 comments
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