Hacker News on 28 December 2007

• Ask 37signals: How do you process credit cards?
• Java is becoming the new Cobol
• A Post-Google Fraternity of Investors
• ThruDB: Faster and Cheaper than SimpleDB
• Scaling MySQL at YouTube
• Have any Y Combinator startups outsourced coding to China to get up and running faster?
• Why Rubinius Matters to Ruby's Future
• Here's the basic problem: you're writing a text editor. Stop doing that. It's 2007.
• The Ghost of Tesla: MIT researchers demonstrate wireless electrical power transfer
• ex googlrs heart ycombinator startups. c4 urself