1697
2371
Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo
8 years ago
730
764
Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content
https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/walt-disney-company-acquire-majority-ownership-bamtech/
699
97
The Internet Archive has digitized 25,000 78rpm Gramophone records
https://archive.org/details/georgeblood
623
86
Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery
http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-08-08/linux-load-averages.html
450
150
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
438
168
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
405
391
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
331
96
Deeplearning.ai: Announcing New Deep Learning Courses on Coursera
https://medium.com/@andrewng/deeplearning-ai-announcing-new-deep-learning-courses-on-coursera-43af0a368116
311
Google Can't Seem to Tolerate Diversity
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-08/google-can-t-seem-to-tolerate-diversity
274
48
Ask HN: Website go-live checklist app
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14958394
256
66
Show HN: An interactive guide to compression basics
http://unwttng.com/compression-decompressed
246
118
Why I’m dumping Firebase for Web
https://lugassy.net/why-im-dumping-firebase-for-web-cd64a78cb43e
245
67
Firefox 55: WebVR and more
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/08/firefox-55-supports-webvr/
237
163
Why some of the best developers keep quitting
https://www.fastcompany.com/40443084/this-is-why-your-best-developers-keep-quitting
232
479
Why Germans pay cash for almost everything
https://qz.com/262595/why-germans-pay-cash-for-almost-everything/
231
202
Despite S.E.C. Warning, Wave of Initial Coin Offerings Grows
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/business/dealbook/initial-coin-offerings-sec-virtual-currency.html
229
40
Show HN: Nim in Action
https://book.picheta.me/
224
175
Cruise is running an autonomous ride hailing service for employees in SF
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/08/cruise-is-running-an-autonomous-ride-hailing-service-for-employees-in-sf/
215
87
Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression
https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.1140/epjds/s13688-017-0110-z
209
37
Do Things That Don’t Scale (2013)
http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
207
138
Government Report Finds Drastic Impact of Climate Change on U.S
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/climate/climate-change-drastic-warming-trump.html
379
Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai
https://www.blog.google/topics/diversity/note-employees-ceo-sundar-pichai/
201
124
The Google Memo: Four Scientists Respond
http://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists-respond/
186
Some insurers insist that patients forgo generics and buy brand-name drugs
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/06/health/prescription-drugs-brand-name-generic.html
200
191
Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/opinion/leonhardt-income-inequality.html
198
33
Contra Grant On Exaggerated Differences
http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exaggerated-differences/
194
African Startups Are Increasingly Attractive to Investors
http://afridigest.com/african-startups-increasingly-attractive-investors/?utm_source=hn&utm_medium=hn&utm_campaign=hn
185
98
Mongoose OS – An Open Source Operating System for the Internet of Things
https://mongoose-os.com/
174
SKYACTIV-X: first commercial gasoline engine to use compression ignition
http://www2.mazda.com/en/publicity/release/2017/201708/170808a.html
167
Percentage of Europeans Who Are Willing to Fight a War for Their Country
http://brilliantmaps.com/europe-fight-war/
160
104
Talos II
https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/
154
54
Unreal Engine 4.17 Released
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/unreal-engine-4-17-released
147
116
Launch HN: Muzmatch (YC S17) – A place where 400M single Muslims can meet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14959835
143
68
What You Can't Say (2004)
http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
133
75
Roger McNamee: I invested early in Google and Facebook and regret it
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/08/08/my-google-and-facebook-investments-made-fortune-but-now-they-menace/543755001/
122
Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14960881
129
59
Official support for .NET
https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-dotnet
126
Unlearning the myth of American innocence
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/08/unlearning-the-myth-of-american-innocence
137
Atom 1.19 – Improved Responsiveness and Memory Usage
http://blog.atom.io/2017/08/08/atom-1-19.html?hn
123
105
Dark Matter May Be Trapped in All the Black Holes
http://nautil.us/blog/dark-matter-may-be-trapped-in-all-the-black-holes
121
25
A Systematic Analysis of the Juniper Dual EC Incident [pdf]
https://www.cs.uic.edu/~s/papers/juniper2016/juniper2016.pdf
120
Text Editor Performance Comparison (2016)
https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/blob/master/editor-perf/readme.md
★ 680C–8 years ago
51
Kovri – A secure, private, untraceable C++ implementation of the I2P network
https://github.com/monero-project/kovri
★ 576C++–8 years ago
111
Prof. of employment law: 'it may be illegal for Google to punish that engineer'
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/08/07/it-may-be-illegal-for-google-to-punish-engineer-over-anti-diversity-memo-commentary.html
110
26
Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D
http://fabiensanglard.net/Game_Engine_Black_Book_Release_Date/index.php
91
Amazon owns a whole collection of secret brands
https://qz.com/1039381/amazon-owns-a-whole-collection-of-secret-brands/
18
Diane Greene’s Advice for Founders [video]
https://blog.ycombinator.com/diane-greenes-advice-for-founders/
99
31
Some Google managers maintain personal blacklists
https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/google-manifesto-blacklists.html
30
Why Elephants Don’t Explode: How Nature Solves Bigness
http://noticing.co/on-size-and-metabolism/
95
49
When Beethoven Met Goethe
https://theamericanscholar.org/when-beethoven-met-goethe/#.WXqDcIWcHBV
88
16
Show HN: Gorillaz – Andromeda Music Video in WebGL
http://yagiz.me/andromeda/
Kovri – A secure, private, untraceable C++ implementation of the I2P network