Hacker News on 21 October 2008

• Why Talent Is Overrated
• Introducing WysiHat: An eventually better open source WYSIWYG editor
• Reduce Your Business Costs With Free Stuff
• You can now use Backtype to import your News.YC comments on FriendFeed
• Android code now available
• PhD Comics: Academic Salaries
• Build It. Share It. Profit. Can Open Source Hardware Work?
• Kill your blog
• Pirate Bay Tricks Anti-Pirates with Fake Peers
• FriendDA -- Slightly more than a hearty handshake