Hacker News on 9 September 2008

• Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on your back-end? Embrace unix and C
• Iamelgringo's first big project using Mechanical Turk
• Plan B for Fundraising (Guy Kawasaki making sense)
• Ask HN: Tips to work on your startup ideas while still having a day job
• Can a Human See a Single Photon?
• Peter Thiel: Best Predictor of Startup Success Is Low CEO Pay
• Talking Stocks
• Why Mozilla is committed to Gecko as WebKit popularity grows
• Move over T9, here comes Swype
• At VMware, a Firing Is Still Reverberating