Hacker News on 19 October 2009

• Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company
• HTML5, meet 1998.
• Surprises
• D. J. Bernstein
• Was our oldest ancestor a proton-powered rock?
• Apple 4Q Profit Jumps 47% On Higher Mac, IPhone Sales
• Why hasn't Vista sold well?
• This shouldn’t be the image of Hack Day
• R for Programmers
• In a previously unpublished story, Kurt Vonnegut bellies up to the bar