Hacker News on 2 July 2013

• Releases – a workflow for shipping software to end users
• Text of letter to Edward Snowden from his father and father’s attorney
• Python Tools for Visual Studio
• Google Reader is dead
• Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome
• Internet Explorer 11: “Don’t call me IE”
• Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash
• Restore the Fourth Organizes Protests Against Unconstitutional Surveillance
• Why I’m not paying the Troll Toll
• Oh, My Hand: Complaints Medieval Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Manuscripts