Hacker News on 15 December 2008

• Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs
• How Difficult is it to Write a Compiler?
• The Extraordinary Happenings At BitTorrent
• Ask HN: you're rich, now what?
• Advice to Incoming Freshmen in Computer Science
• Screencast on writing a ray tracer in Common Lisp
• Lawrence Lessig: The made-up dramas of the Wall Street Journal
• My Seth Godin decline letter. Thoughts?
• If you have to lay people off, don't do it this way
• 321 Vim colorschemes