top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-06-06

The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness

https://www.city-journal.org/decline-of-family-loneliness-epidemic

6 years ago

1329 upvotes – 1183 comments

How to Draw Animals (1930)

http://dessinoprimaire.blogspot.com/2012/02/les-animaux-tels-quils-sont.html

6 years ago

595 upvotes – 104 comments

Google Cloud Networking Incident Postmortem

https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/19009

6 years ago

570 upvotes – 182 comments

Algorithm allows video editors to modify talking-head videos as if editing text

https://news.stanford.edu/2019/06/05/edit-video-editing-text/

6 years ago

558 upvotes – 202 comments

Why Medium Sucks

https://www.cdevn.com/why-medium-actually-sucks

6 years ago

502 upvotes – 154 comments

How to get rich without getting lucky (2018)

https://nav.al/how-to-get-rich

6 years ago

392 upvotes – 184 comments

Google to Acquire Looker

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/expanding-our-platform-for-business-intelligence-and-embedded-analytics

6 years ago

360 upvotes – 167 comments

Joyent Public Cloud EOL

https://docs.joyent.com/joyent-public-cloud-eol

6 years ago

317 upvotes – 275 comments

Why the “Digital Ocean killed my company” incident scares the hell out of me

https://blog.checklyhq.com/why-the-recent-digital-ocean-killed-my-company-incident-scares-the-hell-out-of-me/

6 years ago

316 upvotes – 180 comments

This week’s dead Google product is Google Trips

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/06/this-weeks-dead-google-product-is-google-trips-may-it-rest-in-peace/

6 years ago

311 upvotes – 129 comments

Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft grabs close-up thirty feet above asteroid

https://www.cnet.com/news/japans-hayabusa2-spacecraft-snaps-close-up-just-30-feet-above-asteroid/

6 years ago

282 upvotes – 97 comments

Inventors killed by their own inventions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_their_own_inventions

6 years ago

273 upvotes – 149 comments

Uber data reveals motoring slower than walking in many cities

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/05/22/uber-data-reveals-motoring-slower-than-walking-in-many-cities/

6 years ago

270 upvotes – 259 comments

Introduction to Genetic Algorithms

https://blog.floydhub.com/introduction-to-genetic-algorithms/

6 years ago

261 upvotes – 65 comments

India to order taxi aggregators like Uber, Ola to go electric

https://in.reuters.com/article/us-india-electric-autos-exclusives/exclusive-india-to-order-taxi-aggregators-like-uber-ola-to-go-electric-idINKCN1T71DU

6 years ago

258 upvotes – 113 comments

Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No Beginning

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-debate-hawkings-idea-that-the-universe-had-no-beginning-20190606/

6 years ago

249 upvotes – 284 comments

Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed software in online stores

https://squareup.com/us/en/legal/general/pos

6 years ago

232 upvotes – 142 comments

Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20118963

6 years ago

231 upvotes – 324 comments

Tokyo mechanical keyboard meetup photos

http://romly.com/archives/2019/05/tokyomk6_en.html

6 years ago

222 upvotes – 102 comments

Launch HN: Termius (YC W19) – SSH client that works on desktop and mobile

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20118727

6 years ago

220 upvotes – 137 comments
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