Hacker News on 17 January 2009

• How I Built an RPG In A Week From Scratch With No Budget
• Why Java exceptions are slow (and Common Lisp conditions aren't)
• Ask HN: What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time?
• Belkin caught using Amazon Mechanical Turk to post fake reviews for its products
• Google opens Jaiku source code
• Tarsnap news
• Ask HN: Which school do you attend?
• Evidence emerges of Israeli use of phosphorus weapons in Gaza
• EngineYard releases Solo: Inexpensive, web-based platform for Rails
• Web design resources