top 10 hacker news stories for 2013-10-30

NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost

13 years ago

1604 upvotes – 592 comments

Announcing The Dark Mail Alliance – Founded by Silent Circle and Lavabit

http://silentcircle.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/announcing-the-dark-mail-alliance-founded-by-silent-circle-lavabit/

13 years ago

565 upvotes – 209 comments

Does life end after 35?

http://kzhu.net/does-life-end-at-35.html

13 years ago

530 upvotes – 220 comments

Cisco to release BSD-licensed H.264 stack

https://brendaneich.com/2013/10/ciscos-h-264-good-news/

13 years ago

327 upvotes – 175 comments

Users complain their Dell 6430u laptops smell like cat piss

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/t/19512174.aspx

13 years ago

307 upvotes – 159 comments

Java Virtual Machine in pure Node.js

https://github.com/YaroslavGaponov/node-jvm#!

13 years ago

★ 2.1k JavaScript
286 upvotes – 138 comments

Let’s Build a Compiler (1995)

http://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/

13 years ago

247 upvotes – 56 comments

Why Meteor will kill Ruby on Rails

http://differential.io/blog/meteor-killin-rails

13 years ago

247 upvotes – 323 comments

The Battle for Power on the Internet

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/the_battle_for_1.html

13 years ago

238 upvotes – 30 comments

Mozilla will add H.264 to Firefox as Cisco makes push for WebRTC’s future

http://gigaom.com/2013/10/30/mozilla-will-add-h-264-to-firefox-as-cisco-makes-eleventh-hour-push-for-webrtcs-future/

13 years ago

218 upvotes – 62 comments
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