Hacker News on 11 February 2010

• Turn $5 steak to $50 steak with salt
• Every time an engineer joins Google, a startup dies
• Son-of-a-bitch, it worked. My first step down the customer development path…
• Google Acquires Aardvark For $50 million
• The Problem With Google Buzz Is That It Solves Google’s Problem At Your Expense
• The secrets of Malcolm Gladwell
• Keep doing that and you'll go blind
• Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C
• Google Buzz? More Like Buzz Kill
• Derek Sivers' 3 Minute TED Talk (Video)