Hacker News on 8 February 2008

• Web applications suck and they’re not worth creating
• Arc's Unicode support (by the news.yc patch writer)
• Ask Hackers: Opinions on OCaml?
• The Years of Experience Myth
• Teaching, Playing, and Programming: Ten Years of Purely Functional Data Structures
• The Erlang Challenge
• Cringely on Microsoft-Yahoo: Yahoo Needs Courage, Microsoft Needs a Heart
• Martin Fowler: Cheaper Talent Hypothesis
• Microsoft to acquire Ustream.tv for $50 million?
• Ask YC: Scaling questions.