Hacker News on 23 December 2009

• How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room.
• Swiss Army Knife of Unix Debugging: lsof
• Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity
• An astrophysicist reviews the science of "Avatar".
• 4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED
• YC was nominated for a Crunchie, but please vote for Ron Conway instead.
• Learn Python by writing games (free book)
• Anniversary of the Rails/Merb Merger: So How'd It Go?
• Novice CL user writes mysql access in CL as an exercise
• Apple is terrified of iphone web-apps being as good as native apps