Hacker News on 30 July 2008

• Google Acquires Omnisio (YC Winter 08)
• Xkcd - Linux, a cautionary tale
• Microsoft's new legacy-free OS from scratch
• Balsamiq, a bootstrapped startup featured here some time ago, makes $10k in 6 weeks
• OPEC 2.0: Bandwidth is the New Oil
• Posterous.com (YC Summer 08) launches Autopost to all major blog platforms
• The Economics of Testing Ugly Code
• Yuil vs. Cuil - The hack wins hands down...
• The Myth of Moderate Exercise
• Response to massive boost in Ruby perfomance