Hacker News on 17 December 2009

• “Is PayPal good for your microISV business?” A short PayPal horror story
• Greybeard Stories: The Jamming Gyro
• Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones
• VLC desperately needs a Mac OS developer to help out
• Browser Size, from Google Labs
• Shuttleworth steps down as Ubuntu CEO
• What's the Deal with Fish Oil?
• Plurk’s official response to Microsoft’s apology
• Algorithm Tutorials
• Friendly: NoSQL With MySQL in Ruby