Hacker News on 8 May 2009

• A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages
• How to implement 'realistic' swordfighting in video games.
• Being too successful is one of life's biggest risks (2004)
• Search Goes Real-Time With Scoopler (YC S08)
• What database would you use to store (min) 10 billion objects?
• Speeding up a Rails request by 150ms by changing 1 line
• Being able to build something cool is not good enough. Neither is fast performance.
• KIVA Robots Continue to Conquer Warehouses
• The Harlem Miracle
• Backup your Database in Git