Hacker News on 31 October 2008

• How Porsche fleeced hedge funds and roiled the world’s financial markets
• Man hand-builds Lamborghini Countach, from scratch, in his own basement
• John Walker's Crisis Letter to Autodesk Employees (1983)
• The One Thing in Life You Can Control: Effort
• Review of Intel's New X25M SSD (same one Torvalds has) in a new MacBook Pro
• Gabor is looking for a technical cofounder
• RepRap: Open Source, $500 3-D Printer (And Self-Replicates)
• Things I wish I’d known when I was younger
• Zed follows up on the search for Matt
• The $8 an hour shuttle driver behind a Nobel Prize