Hacker News on 14 February 2012

• Game Developer Gives 7-Year-Old Best Birthday Present Ever
• Show HN: Hackershelf. Community curated collection of legally free books
• How Browsers Work: Behind the Scenes of Modern Web Browsers
• Bret Victor: Inventing on Principle
• Why Don't Americans Elect Scientists?
• Meetings: Where Work Goes to Die
• How Far Can You Get From McDonald's?
• Rediscovering the Rsync Algorithm
• BitTorrent Live: Cheap, Real-Time P2P Video Streaming That Will Kill TV
• On Business Madness