Hacker News on 9 February 2009

• Applications open for summer 2009 YC funding
• The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture
• Auto-Tune: Why Pop Music Sounds Perfect
• A critique of The Black Swan
• How did we geeks become experts on macroeconomics?
• Twits Know: Google Quietly Laying Off Engineers
• How one guy with a 20yo telephone did $30m in damages in less than one night.
• Kindle 2: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device
• Why aren't developers interested in Ada?
• One free interaction