Hacker News on 3 April 2009

• Ron Garret: How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career.
• The problems with url shorteners
• Sources: Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter
• Open letter to Blackboard: $1M to charity if you drop patent litigation
• Twitter, Ruby on Rails, Scala and people who don’t RTFA
• Tiny computers + wireless mesh network + Python → Awesome
• Linux is Obsolete [1992]
• Ask HN: What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup?
• IBM On The Verge of Buying Sun for $7 billion
• Chat startup Chatterous (YC W08) throws gauntlet down against proprietary closed chat widgets