Hacker News on 2 January 2010

• How Not To Promote Your New Startup
• A Form of Madness - Dive Into HTML5
• Why git is so fast (or why Java is not as fast as C)
• Cost of Health Care By Country, as Compared to Life Expectancy
• A review of probability theory
• 50 Things we know now that we didn't know this time last year
• Using nginx as a load balancer
• Fred Wilson's Investment Themes for 2010
• List of unusual Wikipedia articles
• How Little Exercise Can You Get Away With?