Hacker News on 3 January 2010

• Balsamiq Makes 1.6 Million with 70% Profit in 2009
• Intel's "cripple AMD" function
• How to convert email addresses into name, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation
• The most under-hyped, but most important, technology since seat belts
• Wooden Combination Lock
• Uranium Is So Last Century — Enter Thorium, the New Green Nuke
• You Should Waste 50% of Your Time
• The Craziest F***ing Bug I've Ever Seen
• 10 predictions for the world of January 1, 2020
• Why Save MySQL Now?