1055
242
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
539
308
“How do I choose not to share my account information with Facebook?”
https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/general/26000016
472
246
Amazon Vehicles
https://www.amazon.com/b?node=10677469011
439
422
University of Chicago: ‘We Do Not Support So-Called Trigger Warnings’
http://time.com/4466021/uchicago-trigger-warnings/
394
126
BlackBox
https://www.blackbox.cool
366
83
Facebook AI Research Team Open Source DeepMask and SharpMask
https://code.facebook.com/posts/561187904071636
322
268
What’s New in C# 7.0
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/08/24/whats-new-in-csharp-7-0/
288
170
Git Undo
http://megakemp.com/2016/08/25/git-undo/
275
176
FreeNAS: Open Source Storage Operating System
http://www.freenas.org/
271
66
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
257
294
Arguments against JSON-driven development
http://okigiveup.net/arguments-against-json-driven-development/
254
96
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
101
Using attrs for everything in Python
https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2016/08/attrs.html
241
252
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
213
63
Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp
https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
★ 3.8k Common Lisp MIT– 10 years ago
210
193
Looking ahead for WhatsApp
https://blog.whatsapp.com/10000627/Looking-ahead-for-WhatsApp
204
37
Kerbal Control Panel
http://www.sgtnoodle.com/projects/kerbal-control-panel/
130
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/
184
114
Essential Electron
http://jlord.us/essential-electron/
180
34
Show HN: KnightOS – An open-source OS for calculators
http://knightos.org
179
43
Use It Too Much and Lose It? The Effect of Working Hours on Cognitive Ability [pdf]
https://www.melbourneinstitute.com/downloads/working_paper_series/wp2016n07.pdf
171
138
How to make Slack less bad for you
http://robertheaton.com/2016/08/23/how-make-slack-slightly-less-bad-for-you/
165
86
Scientists Watch Thoughts Form in the Brain
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mind-aglow-scientists-watch-thoughts-form-in-the-brain/
163
39
How many x86 instructions are there?
https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/how-many-x86-instructions-are-there/
144
79
How We Designed Our Interview Process
https://blog.readme.io/how-we-designed-our-interview-process/
141
16
NESPi – Mini NES Classic Raspberry Pi Games Console
http://www.daftmike.com/2016/07/NESPi.html
139
41
How to Crawl the Web Politely with Scrapy
https://blog.scrapinghub.com/2016/08/25/how-to-crawl-the-web-politely-with-scrapy/
84
WhatsApp is going to share your phone number with Facebook
http://bigstory.ap.org/48e45fd4838b4e5d9f19166ef57841d4
122
24
Teaching Your Computer To Play Super Mario Bros
http://www.ehrenbrav.com/2016/08/teaching-your-computer-to-play-super-mario-bros-a-fork-of-the-google-deepmind-atari-machine-learning-project/
117
27
KDevelop 5.0.0 release
https://www.kdevelop.org/news/kdevelop-500-released
116
9
Recovering Atari ST ASIC Designs
http://www.chzsoft.de/asic-web/
109
47
It’s time EU laws caught up with technology
https://changecopyright.org/
25
Keystroke Recognition Using WiFi Signals (2015) [pdf]
https://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2015/papers/p90-aliA.pdf
108
12
Learning from Imbalanced Classes
http://www.svds.com/learning-imbalanced-classes/
42
The alleged NSA malware developers are at risk to be identified
https://www.yousry.de/the-nsa-malware-developers-are-at-risk-to-be-identified/
106
38
Why the NSA Dump Isn't from an Insider
https://medium.com/@thegrugq/completely-wrong-a300246ad316#.v112fv666
105
The IBM System/360: the first modular, general-purpose computer
https://text.sourcegraph.com/the-ibm-system-360-the-first-modular-general-purpose-computer-98caeb0c9d1b#.4h3q3sq1b
104
Bash Infinity: A standard library and a boilerplate framework for Bash
https://github.com/niieani/bash-oo-framework
★ 5.6k Shell MIT– 10 years ago
97
Optical solutions to NP-Complete problems
http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~moltean/optical/
94
129
Why the High Cost of Big-City Living Is Bad for Everyone
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/why-the-high-cost-of-big-city-living-is-bad-for-everyone
82
59
Ask HN: Is there any US bank with a sandbox or API?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12359560
78
Bad predictions about the internet
http://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2016/08/25-years-here-are-worst-ever-predictions-about-internet
76
How to Slash the Cost of Drug Development
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/busting-the-billion-dollar-myth-how-to-slash-the-cost-of-drug-development/
73
32
A Focus on Stability
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cant-run-100-node-cockroachdb-cluster/
72
90
How Parents Harnessed the Power of Social Media to Challenge EpiPen Prices
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/08/25/how-parents-harnessed-the-power-of-social-media-to-challenge-epipen-prices/
71
14
Blokdust – build synths, manipulate samples and create sound environments
https://blokdust.com/
68
11
Planes, Games, and Automobiles: The Nomads of Game Development
http://www.vice.com/read/the-nomads-of-game-development
67
45
Doing More with Less Code
https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/08/25/the-01x-programmer/
69
Bicycling: The Safest Form of Transportation
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/06/13/bicycling-the-safest-form-of-transportation/
3
Hidden Markov Models (2014) [pdf]
https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/8.pdf
65
How Fins Evolved into Hands and Feet
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/from-fins-to-feet/496226/?single_page=true
58
The Docker security philosophy is “secure by default”
https://blog.docker.com/2016/08/software-security-docker-containers/
61
1
Deep Learning with Keras: EuroScipy 2016 Tutorial
https://github.com/leriomaggio/deep-learning-keras-euroscipy2016
★ 2.9k Jupyter Notebook MIT– 10 years ago
15
Examining crime reports in San Francisco with SQL
https://www.periscopedata.com/blog/safety-in-san-francisco.html
2
Performance Improvements for FreeBSD Kernel Debugging
http://backtrace.io/blog/blog/2016/08/25/improving-freebsd-kernel-debugging/
Observatory by Mozilla – automated website security testing tool
https://observatory.mozilla.org/
60
Reinforcement Learning and DQN – learning to play from pixels
https://rubenfiszel.github.io/posts/rl4j/2016-08-24-Reinforcement-Learning-and-DQN.html#asynchronous-methods-for-deep-reinforcement-learning#
