Hacker News on 27 December 2008

• Ask HN: How do big web sites roll out new versions?
• What I Learned This Year
• How Niko Tinbergen Reverse Engineered the Seagull
• A programmer's view of the Universe, part 2: Mario Kart
• My Software Is Being Pirated
• For all of you small business owners, you can relate to this
• Something I've noticed about the rich and powerful
• Cuil Fail: Traffic Nearly Hits Rock Bottom
• No Furnaces but Heat Aplenty In Innovative ‘Passive Houses’
• Everything I Know About Business I Learned From Poker