Hacker News on 31 October 2007

• Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web (Marc Andreessen)
• Hackers' screen shots
• Philip Greenspun's take on Women in Science
• Fonts for hackers
• My YC Startup Enters Private Beta
• 5.6 Mag Earthquake knocks San Jose
• Google to launch an open and common API for various social networks
• A Simple Programming Puzzle Seen Through Three Different Lenses (power of Ruby, Python)
• PaperBack: Back up your code to paper (seriously)
• Boston Hacker News Meetup. Sunday 8:30pm, Miracle of Science Bar