Hacker News on 24 May 2007

• Why getting acquired sucks by Steve Gedikian of Nullsoft
• A reCAPTCHA is more than a CAPTCHA, it also helps to digitize old books.
• Fucked Facebook
• Evan Prodromou: "As an experienced programmer, I think of a startup as an abusive relationship"
• UnCommon Web (PG Inspired Lisp Web Platform: Then there was UCW, and all was good)
• You can't predict who will change the world (or why we need more tinkerers)
• Facebook Launches Facebook Platform; They are the Anti-MySpace
• 3 Lessons you Mistakenly Inherited from your Parents
• The OpenCoffee Club Movement
• Is it Useful?