Hacker News on 12 June 2011

• All these Brilliant People at Facebook Make Me Sad
• Guy makes a knife from scratch. He has to make a smelter first.
• Tower Bridge bot killed by Twitter, replaced with marketing
• Aha Moments When Learning Git
• The Reduceron, a CPU designed for functional programs
• Python idioms
• Steve Jobs: Thank you for disobeying me
• Scala: The Static Language that Feels Dynamic (Bruce Eckel)
• How to become a proficient Python programmer
• Ask HN: Advice for a young, self-taught programmer