Hacker News on 24 October 2011

• John McCarthy Has Died
• Amit Gupta needs you
• Give this company a child's drawing and they'll make it into a stuffed toy
• Jeff Atwood On Parenthood
• Using an LCD’s poor viewing angle to your advantage
• The Roots of Lisp
• Ixoth
• John McCarthy: The Robot and the Baby
• What I learned from raising venture capital
• Netflix loses 800,000 subscribers (stock drops 28%)