Hacker News on 13 February 2012

• Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool
• Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X)
• Tumblr Architecture - 15B Page Views a Month and Harder to Scale than Twitter
• Reddit takes a new direction
• The Management Team - Guest Post From Joel Spolsky
• Build a house for less than $5000
• The Fifty is awake again
• Why I use DuckDuckGo and You Should Too
• Sample App with Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap
• The story of the hardest platform game ever