Hacker News on 16 May 2008

• Ask HN: Subscription web sites: How did you get your first customer?
• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
• Why word of mouth doesn't happen
• Condé Nast/Wired Acquires Ars Technica
• Security Holes
• Disqus - After 5 Days on Disqus, I’m Turning Back to Wordpress Comments
• Reality Check: What does Gartner really do?
• Asus to embed Linux into all motherboards
• Insanity? Why A Bootstrap Entrepreneur Raised $17 Million in Venture Funding
• Boston Geeks: BarCampBoston3 (the free geek unconference) is this Saturday & Sunday.