Hacker News on 30 October 2013

• NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide
• Announcing The Dark Mail Alliance – Founded by Silent Circle and Lavabit
• Does life end after 35?
• Cisco to release BSD-licensed H.264 stack
• Users complain their Dell 6430u laptops smell like cat piss
• Java Virtual Machine in pure Node.js
• Why Meteor will kill Ruby on Rails
• Let’s Build a Compiler (1995)
• The Battle for Power on the Internet
• Mozilla will add H.264 to Firefox as Cisco makes push for WebRTC’s future