Hacker News on 7 July 2008

• Scaling on EC2 - WebMynd's experiences (YC Winter '08)
• Jgrowl
• Pothead Ph.D. - This is most definitely not a cautionary tale
• Balsamiq - Software and Website Mockup App
• Dabblers and Blowhards - A Criticism of PG
• Google Protocol Buffers - Open Sourced
• See Twitter's SQL.
• How to Say Nothing in 500 Words
• Richard Feynman on The Value of Science
• The ascendancy of Hacker News & the gentrification of geek news communities