Hacker News on 14 December 2008

• The memristor—the functional equivalent of a synapse—could revolutionize circuit design
• On Python packaging
• Mixwit (YC W08) shuts down
• Links between Paul Graham's essays - revisited
• Funeral director had $250 million stash of IBM stock
• Fed refuses to disclose recipients of $2 trillion
• Dissertation Could Be Security Threat
• Ask HN: Has your handwriting suffered from years on the keyboard?
• India’s Reverse Diaspora
• What Yahoo Should Do