top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-12-19

An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679008/an-indian-inventor-disrupts-the-period-industry

15 years ago

Dear Internet: It's no Longer OK Not to Know How Congress Works

http://www.informationdiet.com/blog/read/dear-internet-its-no-longer-ok-to-not-know-how-congress-works-

15 years ago

The Bomb That Changed My Life

http://swombat.com/2011/12/19/bomb-changed-my-life

15 years ago

Why is Windows so slow?

http://games.greggman.com/game/why-is-windows-so-slow/

15 years ago

N. Korean leader Kim Jong Il dies

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16239693

15 years ago

How to get hired (or, 'The silly story of interviewing in the valley')

http://trapm.com/how-to-get-hired-or-the-silly-but-adorable-st

15 years ago

CoffeeScript is not a language worth learning

https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2011/12/jargon.md#readme

15 years ago

★ 1.8k Ruby

MITx positions to offer certification for completing courses online

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/mitx-faq-1219.html

15 years ago

Unfortunate Python

http://excess.org/article/2011/12/unfortunate-python/

15 years ago

List of best free online learning sites

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/cktxy/reddit_lets_compile_a_list_of_the_best_online/

15 years ago

What are the lesser known but cool data structures?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/500607/what-are-the-lesser-known-but-cool-data-structures?

15 years ago

How games cheat to help players

http://robotinvader.com/blog/?p=164

15 years ago

Productizing Twilio Applications

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/12/19/productizing-twilio-applications/

15 years ago

Finance for Geeks

http://www.ericsink.com/bos/Finance_for_Geeks.html

15 years ago

Google pays $18 million to shutter Apture, CloudFlare clones it in 12 hours

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/12/19/google-pays-18-million-to-shutter-apture-cloudflare-clones-it-in-12-hours/

15 years ago

AT&T Drops T-Mobile USA Deal

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204791104577108900032431264.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories

15 years ago

Visualizing Device Utilization

http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2011/12/18/visualizing-device-utilization/

15 years ago

Building StatHat with Go

http://blog.golang.org/2011/12/building-stathat-with-go.html

15 years ago

How To Learn About Everything

http://metamodern.com/2009/05/27/how-to-learn-about-everything/

15 years ago

Google+: A few big improvements before the New Year

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/google-few-big-improvements-before-new.html

15 years ago