Hacker News on 5 April 2008

• Some Heroes
• Programmer Destroys Seven Billion Dollar Industry With A Single Software Application
• Source: Google To Launch BigTable As Web Service
• Great Presentation on MetaProgramming. Talks about pg/ycombinator/lisp/ruby. [video]
• How Stereotyping Yourself Contributes to Your Success (or Failure)
• Coming soon: superfast Internet
• Daring Fireball: Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3
• Ask YC: Who are YOUR heroes?
• Cheap solar power poised to undercut oil and gas by half
• Microsoft: Yahoo! has 3 weeks to decide