top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-11-01

Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned “Rockstar” sues Google

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/patent-war-goes-nuclear-microsoft-apple-owned-rockstar-sues-google/

13 years ago

785 upvotes – 528 comments

I Bought An Apartment To Rent Out On Airbnb

http://needwant.com/p/buying-apartment-airbnb/

13 years ago

583 upvotes – 373 comments

My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love

http://twicsy.tumblr.com/post/65725559098/the-10th-year-anniversary-of-my-really-successful

13 years ago

413 upvotes – 163 comments

My Hardest Bug Ever

http://gamasutra.com/blogs/DaveBaggett/20131031/203788/My_Hardest_Bug_Ever.php

13 years ago

345 upvotes – 79 comments

NSA Files Decoded: What the revelations mean for you

http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/snowden-nsa-files-surveillance-revelations-decoded

13 years ago

288 upvotes – 69 comments

Martin Gräßlin, KDE: "Good Bye, Ubuntu"

https://plus.google.com/115606635748721265446/posts/KAPGX3pHR2H

13 years ago

274 upvotes – 179 comments

Don't Pipe to your Shell

http://blog.existentialize.com/dont-pipe-to-your-shell.html

13 years ago

271 upvotes – 121 comments

University of Waterloo: Silicon Valley's Canadian Feeder School

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-31/university-of-waterloo-silicon-valleys-canadian-feeder-school

13 years ago

259 upvotes – 153 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2013)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6653437

13 years ago

240 upvotes – 389 comments

Riot.js – A 1kb client-side MVP framework

https://moot.it/blog/technology/riotjs-the-1kb-mvp-framework.html

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 136 comments

Rails 4.0.1 has been released

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/11/1/Rails-4-0-1-has-been-released/

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 42 comments

25 years ago this week, the Morris Worm brought the Internet to its knees

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/01/how-a-grad-student-trying-to-build-the-first-botnet-brought-the-internet-to-its-knees/?hn

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 54 comments

OpenBSD 5.4 Released

http://www.openbsd.org/54.html

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 102 comments

Introducing ART – A new Android runtime being introduced experimentally in 4.4

http://source.android.com/devices/tech/dalvik/art.html

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 66 comments

Linkedin's Response to My "Phishing with Intro" Post

http://jordan-wright.github.io/blog/2013/11/01/linkedins-response-to-my-phishing-with-intro-post/

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Game where you write Python robots to fight other players

http://robotgame.org

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 98 comments

Don't use autofill in your browser

http://yoast.com/autocomplete-security/

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 68 comments

Show HN: Review healthcare.gov plan prices in 1 click rather than 16

http://www.thehealthsherpa.com

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 59 comments

Ask PG: Is HN experiencing server problems?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6654789

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 68 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2013)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6653426

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 175 comments

Show HN: I open-sourced my travel planning startup, Wanderlust

http://mywanderlust.co

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 59 comments

How to build an Anti Aircraft Missile: Bayes’ Theorem and the Kalman Filter

http://georgemdallas.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/how-to-build-an-anti-aircraft-missile-probability-bayes-theorem-and-the-kalman-filter/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 15 comments

Responsive HTML Emails: a Different Strategy

http://blog.fogcreek.com/responsive-html-emails-a-different-strategy/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 43 comments

Webdesign tool Macaw raises $275k on Kickstarter, $200k more than original goal

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/macaw/macaw-the-code-savvy-web-design-tool

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 62 comments

Codecademy (YC S11) on Colbert Report

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/430141/october-31-2013/zach-sims

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 34 comments

Homeless turn overnight bus route into Hotel 22

http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_24429126/homeless-turn-overnight-bus-route-into-hotel-22

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 97 comments

The BadBIOS Analysis is Wrong

http://www.rootwyrm.com/2013/11/the-badbios-analysis-is-wrong/

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 69 comments

Nokia Becomes The Fourth Largest Smartphone Brand in USA in Q3 2013

http://www.counterpointresearch.com/nokia-becomes-the-fourth-largest-smartphone-brand-in-usa-in-q3-2013

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 60 comments

"BadBIOS" features explained

http://blog.erratasec.com/2013/10/badbios-features-explained.html

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 72 comments

Optimizing AngularJS

http://blog.scalyr.com/2013/10/31/angularjs-1200ms-to-35ms/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 41 comments

A simple no-brainer approach to patent trolls

http://blog.42floors.com/patent-troll-insurance/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 38 comments

An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (1998)

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754status/754story.html

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 21 comments

Ask HN: What do you think of job hopping?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6654211

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 66 comments

Why does Sweden have so many billionaires?

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/billion_to_one/2013/10/sweden_s_billionaires_they_have_more_per_capita_than_the_united_states.html

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 78 comments

Why don't electric fish shock themselves?

http://physics.stackexchange.com/q/347/32063

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 29 comments

Reddit’s Politics Section Bans Salon, Mother Jones, HuffPost for Bad Journalism

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/11/01/reddit_politics_r_politics_mods_ban_mother_jones_others_for_bad_journalism.html

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 81 comments

Mysterious Google barge is a massive showroom, “party deck”

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/11/mysterious-google-barge-is-a-massive-showroom-party-deck/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 61 comments

KitKat’s primary interface is Google Search

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/11/google-just-pulled-a-facebook-home-kitkats-primary-interface-is-google-search/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 71 comments

How I became gaming's most popular and anonymous photographer

http://gamasutra.com/blogs/EvanAmos/20131029/202882/The_power_of_Wikipedia_How_I_became_gamings_most_popular_and_anonymous_photographer.php

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 11 comments

Those Comics in Your Basement? Probably Worthless

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/those-comics-basement-probably-worthless-095537403.html

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 71 comments

Intro to images in Go – concurrency

http://www.pheelicks.com/2013/10/intro-to-images-in-go-concurrency/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 17 comments

PureScript

http://github.com/paf31/purescript

13 years ago

Haskell
61 upvotes – 17 comments
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