Hacker News on 16 January 2009

• Ask HN: How do you deal with alienation?
• Why PHP won
• Doug Comer: How to Insult a Computer Scientist
• 3 Rules of Database App Aging
• Why PHP really won
• Surgeons in England to adopt checklists - expect to halve death rate
• Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)
• Hulu CEO: "We screwed up royally"
• Ask HN: How do you produce product demo videos?
• More startups fail from a lack of customers than from a failure of product development