Hacker News on 23 October 2012

• Zynga May Have Just Laid Off 100+ Employees From Its Austin Office
• The Hardware Renaissance
• The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company
• GitLab, open source github clone, reaches 3.0
• How To Strip DRM from Kindle E-Books and Others
• Amazon reopen wiped Kindle account
• If I was your cloud provider, I'd never let you down
• Under the hood of Windows 8, or why desktop users should upgrade from Windows 7
• iPad mini
• USPTO invalidates Apple's "rubber-banding" patent asserted against Samsung