Hacker News on 8 November 2012

• Microsoft turns spoken English into spoken Mandarin – in the same voice
• Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old
• GNOME (et al): Rotting In Threes
• I am a terrible programmer
• Priceline.com acquires Kayak for $1.8B
• More HTML5 APIs
• Jam With Chrome
• Buildy, a real-time HTML5 building game - come build in our biggest world yet
• Photo of a Nuclear Explosion Less than 1 Millisecond After Detonation
• The Magical Tech Behind Paper For iPad's Color-Mixing