Hacker News on 16 December 2008

• After Credentials
• If programming languages were religions
• PBS: Secret history of the credit card
• Is This Your Paper On Single Serving Sites?
• GitHub's new Fork Queue
• Apple announces final MacWorld, Steve Jobs won't deliver keynote
• Ask HN: Launching?
• Google App Engine Pricing Model
• Scott Adams Blog: The End of Capitalism
• Five Strangest Programming Languages