Hacker News on 1 February 2008

• Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Yahoo
• How I lost my faith (in Lisp)
• Lisper's take on Arc
• xkcd: Real Programmers
• Caring for Your Introvert
• Stop Crying: The A-List works harder than you do.
• Internet undersea cables [pic]
• Google Gathers Social Graph Information From The Web, Launches API
• What Arc gets right
• Ask YC: Who's pushing their data to 'the cloud'