Hacker News on 17 April 2009

• Pirate Bay officially loses case
• Paul Buchheit: Make your site faster and cheaper to operate in one easy step
• Why Being Smart Won't Get You Laid
• Just How Important is the Valley? Let's Look at some Data.
• Sun JVM gets incremental, compacting GC
• Singletasking by Caterina Fake (photo)
• Twitter XSS Worm writer Mikeey gets hacked
• FireDiff - track changes to a page's DOM and CSS
• BBC iPlayer serves nearly 1000 requests per second with Catalyst
• ReBoxed - a collaborative inbox organization tool built in 77 hours