Hacker News on 21 December 2008

• 11th grade
• Programming languages worth checking out
• See all the web bugs tracking you - Ghostery
• "Holy Fucking Shit I Was Just In A Plane Crash"
• At Siemens, Bribery Was Just a Line Item
• Engineering Tradeoffs, From A Google Chrome Developer
• Ask HN: Has anyone used affiliate programs for marketing?
• A tiny interpreter for a stack-based language
• The Early Stage Spaceship
• Local-Motors: Open-source automobile design and manufacturing