Hacker News

1.		Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus on Skype instead (techcrunch.com)
		200 points by crsmith 4 hours ago \| 176 comments
2.		Biggest patent troll of 2014 gives up, drops appeal (arstechnica.com)
		102 points by imglorp 3 hours ago \| 31 comments
3.		China Tries Its Hand at Pre-Crime (bloomberg.com)
		54 points by tokenadult 2 hours ago \| 27 comments
4.		SeedRamp (seedramp.com)
		117 points by endtwist 3 hours ago \| 59 comments
5.		My view on the current situation of Bitcoin and the Blockchain (ito.com)
		28 points by chejazi 1 hour ago \| 11 comments
6.		H.264 is supported in WebRTC from Chrome 50 (rtc.news)
		84 points by arnaudbud 4 hours ago \| 24 comments
7.		Scala on LLVM (greedy.github.io)
		76 points by ddispaltro 4 hours ago \| 19 comments
8.		Show HN: Sway, a tiling window manager and compositor for Wayland (github.com)
		101 points by Sir_Cmpwn 4 hours ago \| 25 comments
9.		Are You Smarter Than a Quant? Questions from the MoMath Masters Contest (wsj.com)
		42 points by sonabinu 3 hours ago \| 19 comments
10.		MAME is now Free and Open Source Software (mamedev.org)
		29 points by Lord_Nightmare 1 hour ago \| discuss
11.		Silicon Valley Has Not Saved Us from a Productivity Slowdown (nytimes.com)
		24 points by leothekim 1 hour ago \| 11 comments
12.		A Deep Dive into DNS Packet Sizes (cloudflare.com)
		38 points by thedg 2 hours ago \| 9 comments
13.		Wealth Inequality Is Even Worse in Reputation Economies (locusmag.com)
		7 points by Uhhrrr 48 minutes ago \| discuss
14.		Beautiful Racket (beautifulracket.com)
		16 points by samth 1 hour ago \| discuss
15.		The Untold History of Arduino (arduinohistory.github.io)
		14 points by toom 1 hour ago \| discuss
16.		Why CSP matters II: How do I know sync works? (reaktor.com)
		10 points by muraiki 1 hour ago \| discuss
17.		Teaching kids to program in their native language (google-opensource.blogspot.com)
		19 points by elangoc 2 hours ago \| discuss
18.		On the Environment and Early Days of Usenet News (1998) (ais.org)
		8 points by ReadToLearn 1 hour ago \| 2 comments
19.		C++ basics for competitive programming (topcoder.com)
		47 points by aj_jaswanth 4 hours ago \| 31 comments
20.		Tim Sweeney: Microsoft wants to monopolise games development on PC (theguardian.com)
		177 points by saint-loup 10 hours ago \| 204 comments
21.		Conflating the Roles of Alerting and Dashboards (kbrandt.com)
		32 points by KyleBrandt 3 hours ago \| 10 comments
22.		Deep Learning Benchmarks (autumnai.com)
		54 points by mjhirn 4 hours ago \| 15 comments
23.		Swift Asserts (mikeash.com)
		62 points by ingve 6 hours ago \| 20 comments
24.		ECDSA Key Extraction from Mobile Devices via Nonintrusive Physical Side Channels (iacr.org)
		109 points by moks 8 hours ago \| 47 comments
25.		Show HN: Trackburnr – track data in GitHub-commit-style heatmaps (trackburnr.com)
		12 points by MegaLeon 2 hours ago \| 3 comments
26.		Zapier (YC S12) Is Hiring a Remote Application Reliability Engineer (zapier.com)
		2 hours ago
27.		Rappel: A REPL for x86, amd64, and armv7 (github.com)
		10 points by gbarboza 1 hour ago \| 1 comment
28.		Great Principles of Computing (denninginstitute.com)
		12 points by kercker 2 hours ago \| discuss
29.		Cygwin and MinGW utilities may lose files (nu42.com)
		37 points by nanis 4 hours ago \| 37 comments
30.		We Hire the Best, Just Like Everyone Else (codinghorror.com)
		430 points by mooreds 8 hours ago \| 293 comments
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