Hacker News on 16 March 2008

• Is it down for everyone or just me?
• JPMorgan buys Bear Stearns for $2/sh, ~$236mm total
• Pycon 2008 Disappointment
• Observation: Lucene rocks
• How To Be Creative
• Ask YC: what's the best way to model a threaded comment system like YC?
• Best Books For a Startup?
• Microsoft logged everyone's MSN IM conversations for a month
• Web 3.0 Demo
• What I’ve Learned From Programming In Lisp