Hacker News on 13 January 2010

• Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure JavaScript
• I Quit My Day Job. Thanks.
• State Department Makes Statement on Google Operations in China
• Using Fibonacci Numbers to Convert from Miles to Kilometers and Vice Versa
• Avatar: The Holocaust We Will Not See
• Default HTTPS access for Gmail
• Sold, For Just Me
• Top 20 Programming Lessons I've Learned in 20 Years
• Smallpt: Global Illumination in 99 lines of C++ (with no external deps)
• Researcher Sam Roweis took his own life last night. Here's one of his lectures.