Feliz Día de Muertos, friends. I'll celebrate my dead dad with a jazzman he liked:

On the news,

• EFF wins petition to inspect and modify car software. "Exemption requests also approved for tweaking abandoned videogames, jailbreaking phones and tablets, and remixing videos". \o/ , via HN.
• [fr] IRIS: Consultation publique sur l'exploitation des hydrocarbures au Québec : « Cause toujours »
• Andreas Stefik - Evidence-oriented programming, via Clojure Gazette.
• PyPy 4.0.0 released - A JIT with SIMD vectorization and more, via HN. PyPy is pure undiluted awesome, go donate. Also, Rust 1.4.
• Pythagorean theorem water demo, via kottke.
• Are we thinking about addiction all wrong?
• Twitch installs Arch Linux, "A cooperative text-based horror game", via HN. GENIUS:

  Remember how chaotic Twitch Plays Pokemon was? Now we have a much harder challenge: install Arch Linux. Every ten seconds, the most popular keystroke in Twitch chat will be entered into an Arch Linux virtual machine.

• Transforming cities with paper cutouts, via kottke.