Hacker News on 4 January 2008

• Obama's Victory Speech
• Should Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail block Facebook?
• Reflections of an Interface Designer
• Buxfer is giving Mint, other personal finance sites, a run for their money
• ASDF - a badly-drawn webcomic of trite, feelgood, preachy... (anti-xkcd)
• Hotel maids challenge the placebo effect
• So a PC, Mac, and Linux walk into a bar
• Implementing a blog in Common Lisp Part 1
• Terminating Cisco's founders
• Ask YC: what will replace the music album?