Hacker News on 17 February 2009

• A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat
• 50% of Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped
• How the Crash Will Reshape America
• Shopping Cart Redesign Boosted Software Sales 94% in A/B Test
• The Golden Grid - CSS Framework
• A Virtual Unknown (moot of 4chan)
• J: an alternative to cd that learns where you spend time
• Simple rule of thumb for measuring the perceived complexity of a user interface
• Graph of NP-Complete Problems
• TechStars Fills Void Left By Y Combinator With New Incubator In Boston