top 10 hacker news stories for 2017-08-08

Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo

9 years ago

Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content

https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/walt-disney-company-acquire-majority-ownership-bamtech/

9 years ago

The Internet Archive has digitized 25,000 78rpm Gramophone records

https://archive.org/details/georgeblood

9 years ago

Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-08-08/linux-load-averages.html

9 years ago

The Most Common Error in Media Coverage of the Google Memo

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/the-most-common-error-in-coverage-of-the-google-memo/536181/?single_page=true

9 years ago

Big Companies and the Military Are Paying Novelists to Write Sci-Fi for Them

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/better-business-through-sci-fi

9 years ago

Apple staffers reportedly rebelling against open office plan

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/08/08/apple-park-employees-floor-plan-hq-spaceship-aapl.html

9 years ago

Deeplearning.ai: Announcing New Deep Learning Courses on Coursera

https://medium.com/@andrewng/deeplearning-ai-announcing-new-deep-learning-courses-on-coursera-43af0a368116

9 years ago

Google Can't Seem to Tolerate Diversity

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-08/google-can-t-seem-to-tolerate-diversity

9 years ago

Ask HN: Website go-live checklist app

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14958394

9 years ago