Hacker News on 12 November 2008

• The End of Wall Street's Boom
• 500 Exabytes per Raindrop
• Google's Plop is implemented in Lisp
• 50% of US engineering students drop out - Why?
• Download Advanced Linux Programming Book as PDF files.
• The Man Who Sold Hot Dogs
• Ask HN: How do Flickr, Youtube and other high traffic websites handle file uploads?
• Ask HN: How do I handle a million hits a minute?
• Stop IE6 campaign - A campaign devoted to wiping IE6 off the web
• Google's SEO Starter Guide