Hacker News on 11 January 2008

• Twitter releases the code for the messaging system they use across their clusters
• How to recognise a good programmer
• How To Talk To Girls At Parties
• Scientists have grown a brain in a petri dish and taught it to pilot an F-22 jet simulator
• Sim City is now GPL'd
• Top Ten Myths of Entrepreneurship
• Did Bill Gates Just Say Windows Sucks?
• Cringely: Apple to buy Adobe in bid to dominate digital content creation?
• 6 reasons to develop your test first
• Ask YC: How do you monetize your website?