Hacker News on 8 September 2007

• PG cites Ron Paul proliferation on Reddit as "evidence of design flaw in version 1 of social news"
• Why I Gave Up Desserts To Become a Better Entrepreneur
• CopFind - collaborative project to log speed traps
• Subversion Merge Tracking: The Basics
• TED: Ray Kurzweil delivers inspirational talk on the power of accelerating technology; AI by 2029
• Adobe is developing software to let home users create movie-quality 3-D graphics
• Venture capitalist: We need to prepare for artificial intelligence
• The Only Flowchart You'll Ever Need
• MDesigns MCube: gorgeous, flexible, solar-powered, and stunningly affordable
• Databases: Partitioning vs. Federation vs. Sharding