top 20 hacker news stories for 2016-08-25

NSO Group's iPhone Zero-Days used against a UAE Human Rights Defender

https://citizenlab.org/2016/08/million-dollar-dissident-iphone-zero-day-nso-group-uae/

10 years ago

1055 upvotes – 242 comments

“How do I choose not to share my account information with Facebook?”

https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/general/26000016

10 years ago

539 upvotes – 308 comments

Amazon Vehicles

https://www.amazon.com/b?node=10677469011

10 years ago

472 upvotes – 246 comments

University of Chicago: ‘We Do Not Support So-Called Trigger Warnings’

http://time.com/4466021/uchicago-trigger-warnings/

10 years ago

439 upvotes – 422 comments

BlackBox

https://www.blackbox.cool

10 years ago

394 upvotes – 126 comments

Facebook AI Research Team Open Source DeepMask and SharpMask

https://code.facebook.com/posts/561187904071636

10 years ago

366 upvotes – 83 comments

What’s New in C# 7.0

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/08/24/whats-new-in-csharp-7-0/

10 years ago

322 upvotes – 268 comments

Git Undo

http://megakemp.com/2016/08/25/git-undo/

10 years ago

288 upvotes – 170 comments

FreeNAS: Open Source Storage Operating System

http://www.freenas.org/

10 years ago

275 upvotes – 176 comments

HackedThat: Breaking in to a hardened server via the back door

http://polynome.co/infosec/inversoft/elasticsearch/linode/penetration-testing/2016/08/16/hack-that-inversoft.html

10 years ago

271 upvotes – 66 comments

Arguments against JSON-driven development

http://okigiveup.net/arguments-against-json-driven-development/

10 years ago

257 upvotes – 294 comments

How Startup Options and Ownership Work

http://a16z.com/2016/08/24/options-ownership/?utm_campaign=Mattermark+Daily&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=33386773&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8Yh06XfJ07IS_elY10dP8tl6Et3vg0oGecP6iW9E-6_zYuCaUP_bMpOXOVidvEs8wUZwZMrYurXUBx4DrTCsDpEFYUNA&_hsmi=33386773

10 years ago

254 upvotes – 96 comments

Using attrs for everything in Python

https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2016/08/attrs.html

10 years ago

246 upvotes – 101 comments

Uber Loses at Least $1.2B in First Half of 2016

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-25/uber-loses-at-least-1-2-billion-in-first-half-of-2016

10 years ago

241 upvotes – 252 comments

Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp

https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano

10 years ago

★ 3.8k Common Lisp MIT
213 upvotes – 63 comments

Looking ahead for WhatsApp

https://blog.whatsapp.com/10000627/Looking-ahead-for-WhatsApp

10 years ago

210 upvotes – 193 comments

ITT is no longer allowed to enroll students who rely on federal loans and grants

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/08/25/this-really-might-be-the-end-of-itt/

10 years ago

204 upvotes – 130 comments

Kerbal Control Panel

http://www.sgtnoodle.com/projects/kerbal-control-panel/

10 years ago

204 upvotes – 37 comments

Essential Electron

http://jlord.us/essential-electron/

10 years ago

184 upvotes – 114 comments

Show HN: KnightOS – An open-source OS for calculators

http://knightos.org

10 years ago

180 upvotes – 34 comments
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