Hacker News on 23 October 2008

• Ask HN: What is the best way to promote your new fancy web application?
• Joel is giving away his software to Y Combinator startups
• CSSHttpRequest (CHR) is a method for cross-domain AJAX using CSS for transport.
• Ask HN: Need a host with some balls, offshore maybe?
• Big Day for Amazon EC2: Production, SLA, Windows, and 4 New Capabilities
• The Receptionist Test (The Interview before the Interview)
• Debian's Vim maintainer switches to Emacs
• The One Thing Every Software Engineer Should Know
• New York Times Running On Fumes
• Sun Loses Co-Founder to Start-Up