Hacker News on 2 December 2009

• My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement
• North Korea Changes Currency
• Why I chose Common Lisp over Python, Ruby, and Clojure
• Step-by-Step Math
• Sprint fed customer GPS data to police over 8 million times
• Dane who ripped his DVDs demands to be arrested under DRM law
• Programmer search engine
• Do You See a Pattern?
• Ask HN: Equity for a first employee
• Happy holidays from Gmail: Free snailmail gift cards