Hacker News on 7 December 2008

• Burning out on Capistrano (Jamis Buck)
• I've Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch
• The Mouse And The Rectangle
• OpenPoker, a scalable poker server written in Erlang, is public on GitHub
• Most Underhyped Apps of 2008
• Vonnegut: a society without productivity variation has no Edisons.
• Analysis: more than 16 cores may well be pointless
• Common chemicals are feminising males of every class of vertebrate animals
• Is cold sore virus responsible for Alzheimer's Disease?
• Tcl the Misunderstood (not too new)