Hacker News on 5 November 2009

• Creating Controversy for its own Sake (AA.com redesign fiasco)
• Introducing Closure Tools
• The “Interview” with Y Combinator That’s Not
• Is it Time for You to Earn or to Learn?
• 9,73,241,561,1081,1849,_?_
• Upgrade your career
• Google Dashboard: This is a brief of how much Google knows about you
• Japanese Teenage Boy Improved Ruby 1.9 Performance By Up To 63%
• New ocean forming in African desert
• Bug tracking isn't a network-effect business