Hacker News on 19 January 2011

• Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
• The polynomial algorithm for 3-SAT problem (or P=NP)
• Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it
• Introducing AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• No double standards: supporting Google's push for WebM
• Facebook is what happens to the Web when you hit it with the stupid stick
• Senator Al Franken: No joke, Comcast trying to whack Netflix
• Sony uses DMCA to silence speech that reveals its security flaws
• Website calculates how your life might be like in another country
• Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour, by Colin Percival