Hacker News on 31 May 2007

• How Ads Really Work: Superfans and Noobs -- Great post by creator of Metafilter
• Warning: RoR is slow
• Startup search
• Steve Jobs and Bill Gates discuss desktop vs. web apps and mobile devices (excellent arguments and ideas!)
• Scientology as a way of marketing your product
• Microhacks for supersizing convertible debt
• Hard Negotiating a Business Sale -- Norm Brodsky
• Adsense as a biz model is doomed
• evhead: You have to decide what game you're playing
• evhead: Why VC (Ev, of Twitter)