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Issue #140 // March 15th, 2013 // View in your browser

Lots of great reads this week, enjoy! kale

#Featured


Google Reader shutting down //googleblog comments

Poll: Best RSS reader

State of RSS Readers //superfeedr comments

We're Building A Reader //digg comments

#Favorites


Why I'm switching (back) to Firefox
//campaul comments

Automatic Launches
//automatic comments

How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go
//iron comments

Procrastination is Not Laziness
//thoughtcatalog comments

Apartments So Small They Can Only Be Photographed From Above
//theatlanticcities comments

The hypocrisy in Silicon Valley's big talk on innovation
//sfgate comments

Walk Through The First Minutes of a Linux Box Troubleshooting
//devo comments

Bulletproof demos using Chrome's playback mode
//hubspot comments

Show HN: Word Tree in D3.js
//jasondavies comments

Developing a responsive, Retina-friendly site (Part 2)
//paulstamatiou comments

#Ask HN


Ask HN: How did you find your early adopters?

Ask HN: How do blind people code and work with terminals?

#Show HN


Save 95% memory in Google Chrome //one-tab comments

My side project about side projects //sideshowhq comments

Incorporate your startup online with YC's forms (built by two lawyers) //clerky comments

Weekend project, fun spin on dating. Only friends edit your profile //cupidwithfriends comments

Write Better with Draft //draftin comments

Real-time Wiki //document comments

Task.li turns emails into shared task lists for you //task comments

#Classics


Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas //paulgraham comments

New IDE: code bubbles //brown comments

More in this week's Wayback Letter...

#Code


Huginn, an Open Source IFTTT / Yahoo Pipes //github comments

Clojure: All grown up //wit comments

Announcing Kiln Harmony: the Future of DVCS //fogcreek comments

Sails.js: Realtime MVC framework for node.js //github comments

Lua: Good, bad, and ugly parts //kulchenko comments

Marc-André's two day Programming Master Class starts March 25th. He covers everything you need to know about how a programming language works, from your code to the machine. It will change the way you view programming forever and will make you a better programmer in the process.

#Design


Why I created Comic Sans //connare comments

Bootstrap 3 preview //getbootstrap comments

14 lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to HTML5 //econsultancy comments

Introducing A New Article Design //nytimes comments

Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People //darkpatterns comments

Some amazing CSS3 background patterns from Lea Verou and others //verou comments

The Era of Symbol Fonts //alistapart comments

#Books


Releasing my book "Hacking the Xbox" as a free PDF in honor of Aaron Swartz //nostarch comments

Show HN: Today I launched a comprehensive and free guide to drop shipping //shopify comments

Learning Python while processing raw text: The NLTK book //nltk comments

The Joy of Clojure (2nd Edition) //manning comments

#Watch


Dad hacks Donkey Kong for his daughter; Pauline now saves Mario //arstechnica comments

This is What Happens When You Run Water Through a 24hz Sine Wave //thisiscolossal comments

SpaceX’s Autonomous ‘Grasshopper’ Rocket Makes Milestone Flight //wired comments

#Longreads


The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble //nytimes comments

Best short story about the future I've ever read //skyhunter comments

#Fun


Official Hacker News T-Shirt //teespring comments

Massively multiplayer city-building game in HTML5 //tholman comments

#Prompt


Did you finish a great book recently? Have a book to recommend? Let me know and I'll put together another book list, plus one randomly selected person will get the new Practical Programming ebook from Pragamtic Programmers.