Hacker News on 17 February 2012

• Did You Hear We Got Osama?
• Hacking Hacker News
• How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did
• How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI
• Stop Paying Your jQuery Tax
• Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners
• John Nash's Letter to the NSA
• Forget Self-Improvement
• I would rather drink piss like Bear Grylls than log in with Facebook
• Canadian Digs Out Basement Using Only Radio Controlled Scale Tractors and Trucks