Hacker News on 27 October 2009

• Google Groups is Dead
• Amazon Relational Database Service
• Alexis and Steve are leaving Reddit
• Joel Spolsky, Snake-Oil Salesman
• I'm 20, brilliant and totally lost
• Cottage Computer Programming
• YC: Help, I quit my job, now I cannot get Apple to pay me out for iPhone Apps
• URL Shorteners are evil, here's one to prove it.
• TSA Response to XKCD “Bag Check” Cartoon
• Peace.facebook.com