Hacker News on 12 December 2009

• Stuff I've learned at Microsoft
• Smart People should do Stupid Stuff
• Sci-fi author and Crysis 2 writer Peter Watts beaten, arrested at US border
• Zsh: The last shell you will ever need
• Google Phone is confirmed, employees already have them in hand
• The American Who Manages the Decline of a Japanese Hamlet
• "Technically, you're already a cyborg..."
• Lessons from My AlphaLab Experience
• Fables of the Reconstruction
• Scroogle: Google Anonymously