top 50% 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

705 upvotes – 145 comments

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

681 upvotes – 157 comments

The Bomb That Changed My Life

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

15 years ago

460 upvotes – 83 comments

Why is Windows so slow?

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

15 years ago

337 upvotes – 153 comments

N. Korean leader Kim Jong Il dies

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

15 years ago

327 upvotes – 83 comments

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

245 upvotes – 171 comments

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
218 upvotes – 124 comments

MITx positions to offer certification for completing courses online

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

15 years ago

203 upvotes – 42 comments

Unfortunate Python

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

15 years ago

194 upvotes – 55 comments

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

145 upvotes – 13 comments

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

133 upvotes – 54 comments

How games cheat to help players

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

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 45 comments

Productizing Twilio Applications

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

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 33 comments

Finance for Geeks

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

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 34 comments

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

118 upvotes – 75 comments

AT&T Drops T-Mobile USA Deal

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

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 74 comments

Visualizing Device Utilization

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

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 4 comments

Building StatHat with Go

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

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 25 comments

How To Learn About Everything

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

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 8 comments

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

94 upvotes – 51 comments

I miss w

http://notes.torrez.org/2011/12/i-miss-w.html

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 30 comments

Why there might not be enough Raspberry Pi to go around

http://www.thesinglestep.org/thoughts/rspi/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 28 comments

San Francisco team wins paper shredder puzzle prize

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/18/BU4I1MD3O9.DTL&tsp=1

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 15 comments

Marc Andreessen: Predictions for 2012

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57345138-93/marc-andreessen-predictions-for-2012-and-beyond/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 26 comments

Saudi prince invests $300 million in Twitter

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h3Nk_HUGilGKjSdSBe0wlqNeUdYg?docId=ed903df8db814df7b2f227cc983835d9

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 45 comments

Apple Lossless Decoder in Coffeescript

https://github.com/ofmlabs/alac.js

15 years ago

★ 1
81 upvotes – 23 comments

Patriot Act and privacy laws take a bite out of US cloud business

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/patriot-act-and-privacy-laws-take-a-bite-out-of-us-cloud-business.ars

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 9 comments

Response to 'I'm turning 30 and I've produced no amazing art'

http://splinter.com.au/turning-30-all-ideas-no-execution

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 26 comments

Attacking NoSQL and Node.js: Server-Side JavaScript Injection (SSJS)

http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/14453905385/attacking-nosql-and-node-js-server-side-javascript

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 35 comments

From Drug Trafficker to Start-Up CEO

http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/12/19/from-drug-trafficker-to-start-up-ceo/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 8 comments

Why your startup should never release numbers

http://www.giftrocket.com/stealthy-speedy

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 22 comments

Don't Break the Internet - Stanford Law Review

http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/dont-break-internet

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 1 comments

MIT launches new online learning initiative

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

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 3 comments

Amazon, please don’t hijack the web on Kindle Fire

http://gigaom.com/mobile/yo-amazon-please-dont-hijack-the-web-on-kindle-fire

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 24 comments

New Kicksend App Enables True File Sharing on the iPhone

http://blog.kicksend.com/weve-enabled-file-sharing-on-your-iphone

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 7 comments

TimeKiwi, the beautiful timeline creator relaunched with usernames

http://timekiwi.com/?

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 48 comments

Solaris 11 Source Leaked

http://0xfeedface.org/blog/lattera/2011-12-19/solaris-11-source-leaked

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 21 comments

The Zelda Test (or Why no Zelda Clones?)

http://games.greggman.com/game/the-zelda-test-or-why-no-zelda-clones/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 62 comments

Lessons from my startup journey so far

http://joel.is/post/14426113826/10-lessons-from-my-startup-journey-so-far

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 9 comments

Expect Longer Battery Life with Ubuntu Linux 12.04

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/246432/expect_longer_battery_life_with_ubuntu_linux_1204_precise_pangolin.html

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 17 comments

Red: The Camera That Changed Hollywood

http://www.technologyreview.com/business/39225/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 33 comments

Data mining without prejudice

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/large-data-sets-algorithm-1216.html?

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 16 comments

CoffeeScript 1.2.0 is out

http://coffeescript.org/#changelog

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 6 comments

Fibur gives you full concurrency during your I/O calls in Ruby 1.9

https://gist.github.com/1498215

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 20 comments

A Case For Using CoffeeScript

http://www.codethinked.com/a-case-for-using-coffeescript

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 0 comments

Life Fills Up

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2011/12/life-fills-up.php

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 11 comments

Apple wins ban of HTC devices at US International Trade Commission

http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/19/2647362/apple-wins-ban-of-htc-devices-itc

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 67 comments
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