Hacker News on 5 May 2009

• Spolsky: Why Circuit City Failed, and Why B&H Thrives
• Renowned reverse engineer Fravia says goodbye
• Getting Buzz: From 0 to (maybe) Forbes in under a week
• JQuery Plugin: Facebook Style Tokenizing Input Box
• Scaling Django - Michael Malone, Euro Django Con [pdf]
• Posterous (YC S08) launches group blogs that are also email lists
• Fix a bug in Ruby’s configure.in and get a ~30% performance boost
• Create online UML diagrams in seconds
• What MySQL Founder Michael Widenius said about Oracle acquiring Sun
• Ask HN: Explain AWS