Hacker News on 5 April 2009

• I tried Joel's salary scale method, and the results were... mixed.
• I.B.M. Withdraws $7 Billion Offer for Sun Microsystems
• Sleep is Garbage Collection
• Radiohead to Testify Against the RIAA
• Obie Fernandez: My Reasoned Response about Scala at Twitter
• Easy AI with Python
• J.K. Rowling: The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination
• Grok This: Forget The Business Books, Go Sci-Fi To Stoke Your Imagination
• Online Brokerage Zecco Pretends To Give Away Millions, Panics When People Start Spending
• Bruce Sterling requests assistance proving the validity of his marriage