Hacker News on 13 January 2009

• Web Hosting’s Dirty Laundry
• Why I Hate Frameworks
• Failure
• Open-plan offices are making workers sick
• The History of Python
• Posterous had an amazing growth spike in December
• When the Education Bubble Finally Pops
• Happiness 101
• Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy”
• Clojure is running in a live system in a big veterinarian hospital