Hacker News on 2 November 2009

• My startups's new service for parents - A Story Before Bed
• The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals
• How to Drop Out
• How To Spam Facebook Like A Pro: An Insiders Confession
• The Ph.D. Problem
• How I Lost 20 Pounds in 20 Weeks With My iPhone (or: Data is King)
• Why dolphins are deep thinkers
• Eventbug Watch JavaScript events finally in Firebug
• Cheaper, cleverer desalination
• The origin of live and let live (and a very interesting system to analyse)