Hacker News on 1 November 2013

• Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned “Rockstar” sues Google
• I Bought An Apartment To Rent Out On Airbnb
• My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love
• My Hardest Bug Ever
• NSA Files Decoded: What the revelations mean for you
• Martin Gräßlin, KDE: "Good Bye, Ubuntu"
• Don't Pipe to your Shell
• University of Waterloo: Silicon Valley's Canadian Feeder School
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2013)
• Riot.js – A 1kb client-side MVP framework