Hacker News on 4 May 2008

• Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Bid; Walks Away From Deal
• "The switch had two positions... ‘magic' and ‘more magic'. "
• Big and bad
• Game development with Lisp, how to acquire knowledge (from manuals), and other random thoughts
• The End of Ballmer?
• Twelve commandments for Beautiful Python code
• Take that, license plate scanners!
• Ask YC: PhD, yes or no?
• The Power of the JVM
• Good book for economics