Hackernews posts about WhatsApp

WhatsApp is a popular messaging app owned by Facebook that allows users to send text, make voice and video calls, and share media with individuals or groups.

1. WhatsApp, Signal Sign letter against UK privacy bill, say they will not comply (2023) (www.cnet.com)
   77 points by toss1 16 days ago | 18 comments
2. WhatsApp firearms trade thrives in India, Digital Witness Lab finds (restofworld.org)
   9 points by vinnyglennon 5 days ago | discuss
3. Ask HN: Help Anyone here work at WhatsApp?
   5 points by anandvc about 9 hours ago | 2 comments
4. Show HN: Send and Receive Voice Messages to ChatGPT on WhatsApp and Telegram (discusswithai.com)
   3 points by bepolite 20 days ago | 2 comments
5. WhatsApp is now a Large platform in the EU, and will face tougher regulation (www.theverge.com)
   3 points by latexr 19 days ago | discuss
6. BusyScribe: Fast Voice Transcriptions for WhatsApp (busyscri.be)
   2 points by walkofcode 5 days ago | 1 comments
7. WhatsApp Faces Tougher EU Rules as Users Top 45M (www.bloomberg.com)
   2 points by ChrisArchitect 19 days ago | 1 comments
8. How Hizbollah is using cash and WhatsApp groups to shore up power (www.ft.com)
   2 points by miohtama 27 days ago | 1 comments
9. In India, buying a gun is a WhatsApp message away (restofworld.org)
   2 points by marban 4 days ago | discuss
10. Show HN: App for Microlearning "Bytes" via Telegram or WhatsApp (linkblink.tech)
    2 points by slavgerman 5 days ago | discuss
11. WhatsApp Faces Tougher EU Rules as Users TopM (www.msn.com)
    2 points by isaacfrond 18 days ago | discuss
12. Show HN: WhatsApp audios, summarized and searchable – ZeroAudio (www.zeroaudio.cc)
    1 points by fernandommsenna 11 days ago | 1 comments
13. We WhatsApp our docs for printouts?
    1 points by m9a4r3a3n 28 days ago | discuss
14. Show HN: Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsby (github.com)
    442 points by calcsam 18 days ago | 154 comments
15. Show HN: Small back end server to render PNG from VueJS widgets (github.com)
    4 points by oulipo 27 days ago | discuss
16. Tell HN: GenAI companies stopped gatekeeping product access
    3 points by wsgeorge 5 days ago | 2 comments
17. Ask HN: Why aren't governments using Signal with proxies?
    1 points by palata 18 days ago | 7 comments
18. Looking for top front end developers
    1 points by offvega 12 days ago | 2 comments
19. Show HN: Chat Recap AI – Transform Your Chat History with AI Analysis (chatrecap.net)
    1 points by freetoolsplus 22 days ago | 1 comments
20. Ask HN: How Do You Keep Track of Professional Connections?
    1 points by oneturkmen 25 days ago | 1 comments
21. Show HN: Built an extension that let's you hide/show your Slack conversations (github.com)
    1 points by ja3y3 4 days ago | discuss
22. Launching V0 of AI Agents to Find You Great AI Engineers
    1 points by aikin-nivedit 4 days ago | discuss
23. Show HN: FairSplit – Split Restaurant Bills Fairly Without the Math Headache (www.fairsplit.online)
    1 points by victor_bram 5 days ago | discuss
24. Show HN: I got my first 10 users for a job matching tool (yourjobfinder.website)
    1 points by taha__amh 14 days ago | discuss
25. Show HN: AI Assistant for Dumbphone Users (lightfriend.quest)
    1 points by ahtavarasmus 25 days ago | discuss
26. Italy blocked from using Paragon's Graphite spyware over misuse allegations (www.theguardian.com)
    1 points by aleclm 30 days ago | discuss
27. US judge finds NSO Group liable for hacking journalists via WhatsApp (www.reuters.com)
    576 points by o999 3 months ago | 240 comments
28. You can deactivate anyone's WhatsApp account by simply sending an email (twitter.com)
    472 points by KomoD over 1 year ago | 212 comments
29. WhatsApp forces Pegasus spyware maker to share its secret code (arstechnica.com)
    459 points by Tomte about 1 year ago | 148 comments
30. A clickjacking vulnerability in WhatsApp that enables phishing attacks (00xbyte.github.io)
    364 points by enimodas about 1 year ago | 81 comments
31. Ericsson to WhatsApp: The Story of Erlang (thechipletter.substack.com)
    270 points by tim_sw over 1 year ago | 79 comments
32. Banks hit with millions in fines for using Signal and WhatsApp (www.cnbc.com)
    253 points by ikue over 1 year ago | 238 comments
33. Private spies hired by FBI and corporations infiltrate Discord, Reddit, WhatsApp (www.leefang.com)
    219 points by walterbell almost 2 years ago | 87 comments
34. Deploying key transparency at WhatsApp (engineering.fb.com)
    204 points by snowboarder63 almost 2 years ago | 201 comments
35. WhatsApp Messaging Interoperability (developers.facebook.com)
    179 points by namanaggarwal about 1 year ago | 146 comments
36. Show HN: A journaling service that runs over WhatsApp (todayhasbeen.com)
    126 points by rahulg 6 months ago | 99 comments
37. Show HN: WhatsApp-Llama: A clone of yourself from your WhatsApp conversations (github.com)
    124 points by advaith08 over 1 year ago | 51 comments
38. Apple deletes WhatsApp, Threads from China app store on orders from Beijing (www.cnn.com)
    110 points by bilekas 11 months ago | 128 comments
39. WhatsApp has been using the microphone in the background (twitter.com)
    107 points by blacktulip almost 2 years ago | 48 comments
40. WhatsApp Down (web.whatsapp.com)
    105 points by Avlin67 almost 2 years ago | 67 comments
41. WhatsApp could disappear from UK over privacy concerns, ministers told (www.theguardian.com)
    104 points by grammers almost 2 years ago | 91 comments
42. More than 100 arrested in Spain in $900k WhatsApp scheme (therecord.media)
    94 points by PaulHoule 10 months ago | 53 comments
43. WhatsApp Outage (downdetector.in)
    90 points by __debugger__ 11 months ago | 61 comments
44. Libwa: WhatsApp C Library (github.com)
    84 points by keepamovin about 1 year ago | 19 comments
45. Victims speak out over ‘tsunami’ of fraud on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp (www.theguardian.com)
    83 points by pseudolus over 1 year ago | 76 comments
46. How to Bypass WhatsApp Web's Locked Chat Feature (lcat.dev)
    75 points by loncat4215 3 months ago | 33 comments
47. How WhatsApp for business changed the world (restofworld.org)
    73 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 163 comments
48. WhatsApp had a major disruption (metastatus.com)
    72 points by foobarbazprod over 1 year ago | 61 comments
49. Meta will let third-party apps place calls to WhatsApp and Messenger users (techcrunch.com)
    71 points by mrkramer 6 months ago | 24 comments
50. Update on Native Matrix Interoperability with WhatsApp (matrix.org)
    65 points by Arathorn 6 months ago | 9 comments
51. How WhatsApp became an unstoppable global cultural force (restofworld.org)
    63 points by insane_dreamer 3 months ago | 194 comments
52. India’s sex workers turn to WhatsApp, Instagram to find clients safely (restofworld.org)
    62 points by vinnyglennon over 1 year ago | 68 comments
53. Meta Withheld Information on Instagram, WhatsApp Deals: FTC (www.bloomberg.com)
    61 points by toomuchtodo 9 months ago | 8 comments
54. WhatsApp corrupts DB, breaks App (old.reddit.com)
    58 points by maxbk over 1 year ago | 26 comments
55. French ministers to ditch WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram over security fears (www.euronews.com)
    49 points by layer8 over 1 year ago | 42 comments
56. Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from China store under pressure from Beijing (www.ft.com)
    49 points by marban 11 months ago | 29 comments