Hacker News on 9 December 2012

• How would I get started?
• Everything is my fault
• I Don’t Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping For Fun and Profit
• Better Rails errors
• 160 Mac Minis, One Rack
• Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Trilogy
• 1983 Radio Shack Catalog
• The FreeBSD Foundation falls short of its 2012 fundraising goal by 50%
• The Most Dangerous Equation [pdf]
• Sir Patrick Moore, astronomer and broadcaster, dies aged 89