Hacker News on 9 December 2008

• News.YC Growth
• Diary of a Failed Startup: Aftermath
• Evolution of Mona Lisa in JavaScript & Canvas
• Karma Widget: Display Your YC (and other) Karma
• Honeybees are found to interact with quantum fields
• Effective teachers have a gift for noticing what one researcher calls "withitness."
• Dear World, email addresses are not identity
• Chatterous (YC W08) brings chatrooms to Twitter
• Gmail Finally Gets A To-Do List
• Why Ruby is not my favorite language