Hacker News on 18 May 2009

• The Git Parable (building a Git-like system from the ground up)
• Dear American Airlines...
• A Life Offline
• Ruby on Rails and the importance of being stupid
• Amazon EC2 gets statistics, auto scaling and elastic load balancing
• How to make your application viral - A guide to getting users
• Top Programming Fonts
• Vim made easy: how to get your favorite IDE features in Vim
• Ask HN: Your Hacker Workspace
• The Death of Richard Dawkins: A short story by Steve Yegge