Hacker News on 29 December 2009

• Welcome to HN: A refresher course on how to disagree... (2008)
• The Silver Thief: a smart burglar who perfected his craft
• Y Combinator Startup Library
• Hitchens: The truth about airplane security measures
• Beautiful mini language for outputing HTML in Python
• Why some smart people are reluctant to share?
• Functional Programming Doesn’t Work (and what to do about it)
• Problems with TDD
• HackerPolls: my mini project for visualizing HN Polls
• Responsible Open Source Code Parenting