Hacker News on 9 August 2009

• Tr.im is now in the process of discontinuing service
• Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin
• The challenges of Creating a Civilization Web Game
• Programming
• In which I switch on a 30 year old computer and it just works
• Sketchbooks aren't about being a good artist, they're about being a good thinker
• Vitamin D slashes risk of cancers by 77 percent (2007)
• Droplet: An Arduino-based wireless display (e.g. weather, twitter, news)
• Ask PG: When should founders start taking a salary?
• Jobs vs. Gates: Who's the Star? (2006)