Hacker News on 4 February 2010

• Microsoft’s Creative Destruction
• How I Landed A $50/hr Side Gig With Little Effort
• Librarian builds self-checkout machine. Costs $1500 instead of $23000
• How to Replace IMAP
• The Oh My God Particle
• A = F/m, So Keep Your Foot on the Gas
• Computers shouldn't make people feel like idiots
• Symbian Operating System now open source
• Johnny Cupcakes
• Sun’s Chief Executive Tweets His Resignation