Hacker News on 26 July 2008

• Why S3 went down
• Inside Chernobyl, a strange new lifeform is blooming
• What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart?
• Google Walks Away From Digg Deal
• Hey language snobs: don't pinch pennies
• Apple’s Culture of Secrecy
• "Most creative people are not working in a university doing research anymore."
• 'Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good,' - Sarah Lacy - NYTimes Review
• Top ten things that suck about Django, revisited
• Amazon S3, July 2008, and Bell Systems, January 1990