Hacker News on 17 May 2009

• How to Be Persuasive
• What Solitary Confinement Does to the Brain
• Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac?
• Ask HN: "Dumbing yourself down" around your peers?
• Amazing JS rainbow effect
• Tell HN: PG's 6 Unexpected Advantages of "Cheapness" in a Startup
• Ask HN: What do you eat?
• Why did the peoples of the New World fail to invent the wheel?
• An easy way to use GNU Screen over SSH
• Socks - A javascript UI toolkit inspired by Shoes