Hacker News on 7 October 2010

• MongoDB's lead developer: Foursquare outage post mortem
• How to be a freelance web developer, part 2
• Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2010 edition
• IE6 effect in HTML5
• Dear Gap, I have your new logo.
• Microsoft Buying Adobe?
• Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator
• The Gentle Art of Poverty
• Scott Adams: The Social Network, "The best movie I've ever seen"
• Ask HN: Where to look to learn UX/Design