Hacker News on 16 December 2009

• Comet is dead, long live websockets
• Item 10^6
• San Francisco: The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S.
• China bans individuals from registering domain names
• 'We are no longer as optimistic about removing the GIL completely. '
• Uncommon - Custom design your own iPhone case
• Clojure Funding Progress
• How to destroy the earth
• Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art
• RedLaser iPhone App reaches 750K downloads, $1M in revenue