Hacker News on 24 December 2008

• Zed Shaw: Ruby Is So Nice
• Time to Reboot America
• Detailed How-To From Banned Digger
• "Text editors should take a lesson from video games."
• 9 Year Old Girl Becomes Microsoft Certified "Professional"
• Mod_v8
• PyCuda: lets you access Nvidia's CUDA parallel computation API from Python
• Using your laptop to compute PageRank for millions of webpages
• IPhone fart app pulls in nearly $10,000 a day
• AdultFriendFinder has filed for an IPO