Hacker News on 24 May 2009

• Teensy++ $24 AVR board, USB, 63/4/2KiB flash/RAM/EEPROM, 46 I/O, 8 analo., 9 PWM
• In Praise of Silence
• Argentina: The Superpower that Never Was (& Why the US Ascended)
• The Incredible App Store Hype
• The Male Programmer Privilege Checklist
• Why don't all whales have cancer?
• Just do it
• The huge-scale real-time auctions that power the Google profit machine
• Netherlands to close prisons for lack of criminals
• Wolfram Alpha Blog : Yes, That’s Dumb—A Lexicographic Footnote