Hacker News on 8 June 2008

• JK Rowling's Commencement speech at Harvard
• A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering
• Scalable Network Programming
• Why did China’s scientific innovation, once so advanced, suddenly collapse?
• Some Consulting Wisdom I Picked Up
• Ask PG: Your new book on Startups?
• Cosmology in Ten Minutes
• Ask HN: Bet the farm. Python or PHP?
• Programming salaries based on language
• Slide Says It's Done Releasing New Facebook Apps