Hacker News on 2 December 2010

• Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem So Readable?
• Ben the Bodyguard: Gorgeous HTML5 Website
• Thanks HN: Goodbye, Golden Handcuffs
• I just need a programmer
• The Full Stack, Part I
• Bitly News
• It's not an arsenic-based life form
• Close the Washington Monument
• Microbes use arsenic in their DNA: Proves phosphorus is not required for life
• Lisp developer walks away with Google AI contest