Hacker News on 8 February 2009

• Keep Your Identity Small
• How to be a better programmer in 6 minutes
• What things cost in ancient Rome
• A Postmodern Crime at TED2009
• I reject your rejection
• Rice professor sees probabilistic method revolutionizing computing
• Trying to Live on 500K in New York City
• Marijuana Cuts Lung Cancer Tumor Growth In Half, Study Shows
• Homeless by choice (during grad school)
• Making Wrong Code Look Wrong (2005)