Hacker News on 23 January 2010

• Learn from my misery: Don't buy a nook.
• _why the lucky stiff on The Setup
• Amplifying C
• Marine Heavy Gunner dev notes - 'Nobody picked up that it was a parody'
• How to Steal a Botnet
• Hello hypervisor, I'm geohot (PS3 hacked by the guy who hacked the iPhone)
• Learning from Wakemate - Smart announcements
• Facebook Snatches User’s Vanity URL And Sells It To Harman International
• US states redrawn so as to have equal populations
• Beware Developers: App Removed From App Store At Request of Competition