Hacker News on 30 October 2010

• My dalliance with smart drugs - and the lesson I learned
• Stephen King tells everything you need to know about writing in 10 minutes
• Just fucking figure it out
• "Dead Drops" is an anonymous, offline, p2p file-sharing network in public space
• U.S. Says Genes Should Not Be Eligible for Patents
• Things Economists Agree On
• How the pantheon has lasted 2000 years without steel in its concrete
• Github has won
• Intuition has no transfer encoding
• Lars Rasmussen, Father Of Google Maps And Google Wave, Heads To Facebook