Hacker News on 11 February 2008

• Portrait of a N00b
• Bill Gates demos Xobni
• An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists
• Chris Sacca: Big Company, Small Company
• The Naive Approach to Hiring People
• Starbucks to Offer Free Wi-Fi
• Runoff from modern life is feeding an explosion of primitive organisms
• SuperCook - enter a few ingredients, it will tell you what recipes you can make
• My first Arc project: a simple Wiki
• Nginx and Memcached, an easy 400% boost in req/s