Hacker News on 27 March 2008

• How to Lay Off Your Developers the Right Way
• Amazon EC2 gets static IPs.
• From Oxford to Silicon Valley, part six
• Omnisio (YC Winter 08) launches
• The thrill of launch
• Futurist Ray Kurzweil Pulls Out All the Stops (and Pills) to Live to Witness the Singularity
• Ask News.YC: What are the most useful things Y Combinator provides its startups?
• Mark E. Zuckerberg, and the early team of facebook
• Are Y Combinator startups less Ambitious?
• Bug Labs sells out of first batch of open-source mobile devices