Hacker News on 8 January 2011

• VLC for iOS Pulled from the App Store
• What does one trillion dollars look like?
• Latency Compensating Methods in Client/Server Games
• Redis memory fragmentation contest
• A Healthy Diet For The Mind
• Notifo (YC W10) Android Client - Beta signup
• When Bad Patents Hurt Good People: Patent Threat Shuts Down Flight Planning Site
• Unreal Networking Architecture
• Why our best officers are leaving
• Internet Identity System Said Readied by Obama Administration