Hacker News on 3 October 2008

• Story of Phil Katz (PKZip)
• New GIMP 2.6 Gives Photoshop a Run for Its Money
• Why Google App Engine is broken and what Google must do to fix it.
• What the author of ARC thinks about Phil Katz
• Ask YC: Can I make money with shareware?
• "Developing Erlang at Yahoo" - New Delicious was rewritten in Erlang
• The House has passed the economic bailout bill 263 to 171
• In-memory databases threaten Oracle's dominance
• There's plenty of room at the bottom
• Facebook Co-Founder Departs To Build “Extensible Enterprise Productivity Suite”