Hacker News on 22 December 2010

• The Simple Software That Could--But Probably Won't--Change the Face of Writing
• Homeland Security Proves It Knows Little About The Internet - Or The Law
• VirtualBox 4.0 released (link to changelog)
• Hipmunk demos at Travel Innovation Summit (video)
• How New Ideas Almost Killed Our Startup
• More Mistakes Discovered In DHS's Domain Seizures
• DotCloud (YC S10) Mix and Match Cloud Platform Launches
• Zinc: a low level language between assembler, C and C++ with Ruby-like syntax
• Python as an Alternative to Lisp or Java, Peter Norvig revisited
• First we built an API, then we built a CMS