Hacker News on 15 October 2007

• Zero to Riding the Rails in Four Months
• 3998-byte executable reduced to 45 bytes
• Design: Voting up or Down is Dead
• What reddit taught me about startups: making more money (really??)
• HowStuffWorks Acquired by Discovery for $250M
• Caterpillar: Web 2.0 Giant
• Is Scribd a Porn Document Network?
• Ask: Text Message Providers? (Who do Buxfer,etc use?)
• Create your own FORTH programming language
• Review of using Trac for project management