Hacker News on 2 May 2009

• Is There Anything Good About Men?
• Can you trust 37signals with your password?
• The night I met Einstein
• The Secret Of Google's Book Scanning Machine Revealed
• Using YQL to grab HN links
• CrossTwine Linker Makes Ruby 4x Faster
• 25 Microchips That Shook the World
• This is what a social-network exodus looks like
• Developers: Never Mind the APIs, Here's YQL Execute
• In the computer age, why are people still asked to do their own taxes?