top 50% 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

Norwegian Town's Bright Idea Is A Shining Example Of Ingenuity

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/10/23/240240813/norwegian-town-s-bright-idea-is-a-shining-example-of-ingenuity

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 46 comments

Towards an inexpensive open-source desktop CT scanner

http://www.tricorderproject.org/blog/towards-an-inexpensive-open-source-desktop-ct-scanner/

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 41 comments

How to write a 48-hour game in just 2 years

http://pixelated.postagon.com/5g437329d

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 33 comments

The making of Elite

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/18/features.weekend

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 56 comments

New Relic now supports Node.js

http://blog.newrelic.com/2013/10/24/node-joins-new-relic-family/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 27 comments

Driverless cars are further away than you think

http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520431/driverless-cars-are-further-away-than-you-think/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 103 comments

Level Up Your Shell Game

http://viget.com/extend/level-up-your-shell-game

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 46 comments

CandyBox2 ASCII web game

http://candybox2.net/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 40 comments

An Interview with Kevin Novak, Data Scientist at Uber

http://chartio.com/blog/2013/10/kevin-novak-interview

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 15 comments

Apps, made better by everyone

http://assemblymade.tumblr.com/post/64965250674/apps-made-better-by-everyone

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 29 comments

List of Open Source Licences in Mercedes Cars [pdf]

http://www4.mercedes-benz.com/manual-cars/ba/foss/content/en/assets/FOSS_licences.pdf

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 59 comments

Experience with ePaxos: Systems Research using Go

http://da-data.blogspot.com/2013/10/experience-with-epaxos-systems-research.html

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 19 comments

A Python-Powered Budget Spreadsheet

https://datanitro.com/blog/2013/10/24/budget_spreadsheet_python/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 35 comments

How the Internet hurts your sleep schedule, productivity and personal life

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/10/22/heres-how-much-the-internet-hurts-your-sleep-schedule-productivity-and-personal-life/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 38 comments

Tesla Snags Apple VP Of Mac Hardware To Lead New Vehicle Development

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/24/tesla-reportedly-poaches-apple-vp-of-product-design-doug-field-to-lead-new-vehicle-development/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 36 comments

Reverse Microwave Chills Beer In 45 Seconds

http://foodbeast.com/2013/10/24/v-tex-reverse-microwave/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 79 comments

MS-DOS Viruses in Action

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/10/15-awesome-looking-viruses-from-the-ms-dos-era/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 20 comments

Project: Roadless

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-me-graduate-and-develop-my-graduation-project-further

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 16 comments

What's Up With BBM's Android Reviews?

http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/10/whats-happening-with-bbms-android-reviews/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: Code Climate for JavaScript

http://blog.codeclimate.com/blog/2013/10/24/code-climate-for-javascript/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 31 comments

What's new in WordPress 3.7, "Basie"

http://www.poststat.us/wordpress-3-7-basie/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 28 comments

A Look at Ads on Instagram

http://blog.instagram.com/post/64973363225/adsoninstagram

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 23 comments

The way tech covers Apple is ridiculous

http://scripting.com/2013/10/22/theWayTechCoversAppleIsRidiculous

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 24 comments

Tweetbot 3

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tweetbot-3-for-twitter-iphone/id722294701?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 62 comments

Darpa Initiative Will Focus on Advancing Deep Brain Stimulation

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/25/science/pentagon-agency-to-spend-70-million-on-brain-research.html

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 41 comments

Twitter to offer 70M shares priced at $17-$20 to raise up to $1.4B in IPO

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/24/twitter-to-offer-70m-shares-in-ipo-priced-at-17-20-per-share/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 33 comments

Official Node.js support

https://stripe.com/blog/official-nodejs-support

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 7 comments
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