Hacker News on 20 August 2009

• Dirty Coding tricks used in Production Video Games
• MenuetOS: Written in Assembly, fits on a floppy, has GUI
• What makes Erlang so great
• _why: "Goodbye until I can shake this."
• The Impermanence, Karma, and Bad Behavior of Why The Lucky Stiff
• Infiltrating a Botnet - A Conversation With a Botmaster
• Haskell is 4.2x as good as Erlang at lightweight concurrency. Give it some love.
• A new Erlang docs repository
• _why's best twitter posts
• Patching Erlang for Snow Leopard