Hacker News on 27 July 2008

• The Hydrogen Hoax
• First It Was Song Downloads. Now It’s Organic Chemistry.
• Looking for Plan B - 'almost no one is seeking to create long-term value or build businesses'
• Tipjoy (YC winter 08) Founders on Passing the Hat
• PDFMiner: Python PDF text parser
• No Secret Software!
• Has a surfer Ph.D. rewritten physics? Maybe.
• Zeromq: Fast Messaging
• Getting Things Done When You're Only a Grunt
• Is it worth starting "from scratch" in web dev? Straight Python, or Django?