Hacker News on 29 July 2009

• The Trouble with the Segway
• RethinkDB (YC S09): MySQL Storage Engine Built From The Ground Up For SSD
• Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — "I've Had Enough"
• Yahoo committed seppuku today
• Django 1.1 is out
• YC-Funded HighlightCam Makes It Easy To Remotely Watch Babies, Pets And Burglars
• Emacs 23 is very near
• New JDK 7 Feature: Support for Dynamically Typed Languages in the JVM
• Chroma-Hash: a sexy, non-reversible, live visualization of password field input
• Steve Jobs on why Apple doesn’t do market research