Hacker News on 15 August 2007

• Norvig: How to write a spelling corrector
• How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary
• Why Paul? Why Did You Change It? (About Hacker News)
• Does your project need a Cool Cam?
• Coding Horror: Discipline Makes Strong Developers
• Matt Maroon: Demo Day
• "Why Should Paul Graham Have All the Fun?" (Perry Metzger's talk at Lisp NYC: video & slides)
• The #1 reason excuse for programmers legitimately slacking off (not if you use Lisp ;)
• Wozniak's New Goal is Efficient Housing
• Uses of "* is the new *" in 2005 represented graphically