Hinterkaifeck Murders(en.wikipedia.org)

13 points by janjoseph 3 years ago | 1 comments

Agatha Christie's Disappearance: Amnesia, Suicide, or Despair?(historicmysteries.com)

23 points by thunderbong 3 months ago | 9 comments

The death of east London's most radical bookshop(the-londoner.co.uk)

185 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 125 comments

The Markets of Old London (2024)(spitalfieldslife.com)

48 points by zeristor 9 months ago | 17 comments

Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead(davidoks.blog)

194 points by powera 7 months ago | 179 comments

Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101(bbc.com)

482 points by danso 1 year ago | 90 comments

BBC News obituary reporting that Bletchley Park code breaker Betty Webb has died at the age of 101.

FSE meets the FBI(blog.freespeechextremist.com)

365 points by 1337p337 1 year ago | 117 comments

A blog post from the Free Speech Extremist fediverse instance describing how it traced FBI-contracted scrapers collecting its data and how the FBI processes it.

A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs(pdfa.org)

374 points by DuffJohnson 9 months ago | 211 comments

PDF Association article analyzing the released Epstein PDF files forensically, covering file validity, versions, incremental updates, Bates numbering, metadata and photographs.

The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting(happiness.hks.harvard.edu)

482 points by 47thpresident 1 year ago | 391 comments

An essay from Harvard Kennedy School's Leadership & Happiness Laboratory newsletter on the decline of friendships and the lost art of social connection.

Supercentenarian records show patterns indicative of errors and pension fraud (2020)(biorxiv.org)

432 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 255 comments

bioRxiv preprint by Saul Justin Newman arguing that supercentenarian and extreme age records show patterns indicative of clerical errors and pension fraud.

A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in(nytimes.com)

338 points by jaredwiener 1 year ago | 396 comments

New York Times article about a suicidal teenager who confided in ChatGPT; the capture shows only a CAPTCHA human-verification page.

A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months(arstechnica.com)

324 points by quantified 3 months ago | 185 comments

Ars Technica article on how police misread a username missing an underscore, leading to an innocent man spending 18 months in prison.