Hacker News on 13 November 2008

• Major Breakthrough: First Photos of Planets Around Other Stars
• Python+Scipy+Matplotlib vs Matlab?
• "Sequential programming is dead. So stop teaching it"
• Gawker Media shuts Valleywag, offers Consumerist for sale
• A Scary Line Has Been Crossed For VCs
• Hack your brain: OpenEEG
• Stop Me If You've Seen This Word Before
• Stealing Your Library: The OCLC Powergrab
• The freemium business model: giving away pays
• Clojure adds AOT compilation