top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-10-24

The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones

http://idiallo.com/blog/2013/10/pc-is-not-dead-no-need-for-new-ones

13 years ago

566 upvotes – 396 comments

LinkedIn ‘Intro’duces Insecurity

http://www.bishopfox.com/blog/2013/10/linkedin-intro/

13 years ago

565 upvotes – 155 comments

NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/24/nsa-surveillance-world-leaders-calls?CMP=twt_gu

13 years ago

501 upvotes – 223 comments

Finally, A Bill To End Patent Trolling

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/its-finally-here-a-bill-to-end-patent-trolling/

13 years ago

448 upvotes – 62 comments

How I compiled TrueCrypt 7.1a for Win32 and matched the official binaries

https://madiba.encs.concordia.ca/~x_decarn/truecrypt-binaries-analysis/

13 years ago

346 upvotes – 105 comments

Off

http://www.marco.org/2013/10/24/off

13 years ago

300 upvotes – 216 comments

New banner ads push actual Google results to bottom 12% of the screen

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/10/new-banner-ads-push-actual-google-results-to-bottom-12-of-the-screen/

13 years ago

271 upvotes – 135 comments

So You'd Like to Make a Map using Python

http://sensitivecities.com/so-youd-like-to-make-a-map-using-python-EN.html

13 years ago

265 upvotes – 40 comments

The best patent troll-killing bill yet

https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9416

13 years ago

258 upvotes – 31 comments

Google breaks 2005 promise never to show banner ads on search results

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/24/google-breaks-promise-banner-ads-search-results

13 years ago

245 upvotes – 205 comments

Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 billion

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/oct13/10-24fy14q1earningspr.aspx

13 years ago

244 upvotes – 237 comments

The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-man-who-would-teach-machines-to-think/309529/

13 years ago

228 upvotes – 85 comments

Primer on elliptic curve cryptography

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/a-relatively-easy-to-understand-primer-on-elliptic-curve-cryptography/

13 years ago

205 upvotes – 47 comments

Introducing Cover

http://coverscreen.tumblr.com/post/64965314790/introducing-cover

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 96 comments

Fedora Linux will switch to Python 3 by default

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_as_Default

13 years ago

188 upvotes – 71 comments

The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (2000)

http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/library/CONTROVERSY/LAWSUITS/SEA/katzbio.txt

13 years ago

187 upvotes – 64 comments

Php.net detected as a malware host by Google Safe Browsing

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://php.net/manual/en/function.next.php&hl=en

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 168 comments

Exact numeric nth derivatives

http://jliszka.github.io/2013/10/24/exact-numeric-nth-derivatives.html

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 47 comments

The Pricing Model That Increased Our Free Trial Signups by 358%

http://groovehq.com/blog/pricing-that-worked

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 36 comments

How to Build Willpower for the Weak

http://ideas.time.com/2013/10/22/how-to-build-willpower-for-the-weak/

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 54 comments
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