Hacker News on 17 March 2009

• Teens capture images of space with £56 camera and balloon
• IPhone 3.0 has copy/paste, subscriptions, micropayments, P2P, maps, push, MMS, etc
• SR-71 Disintegrates Around Pilot During Flight Test (in 1966)
• Ask HN: Has Hacker News been hacked/cracked?
• Why mercury is forbidden aboard airplanes
• Gladwell: Getting In, The social logic of Ivy League admissions
• Use Cloudkick To Manage Amazon Web Services’ EC2 (YC W09)
• My Life in Child Porn
• Super last minute advice for startups applying for Y Combinator
• Erlang/OTP R13A has been released