Hacker News on 25 October 2009

• What Startups Are Really Like
• What we actually know about software development, and why we believe it’s true
• Ask HN: Statistics for hackers?
• Ask HN: Getting users
• Sun's ZFS lead developer on the reason behind Apple dropping ZFS
• X264's abstraction layer for cross-platform x86 assembly: now free to use
• First Rule of Programming Is Don't Program
• Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
• Ask HN: Your favorite Startup School moments?
• Confessions of a Long-Distance sailor