HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

481.

World food prices hit 10-year peak – FAO (reuters.com)

251 points by paulpauper on Oct 11, 2021 | 275 comments

482.

A framework for grading your performance on programming interview problems (docs.google.com)

251 points by danielgh7 on Oct 17, 2021 | 232 comments

483.

Comparing ClickHouse to PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB for time-series data (blog.timescale.com)

251 points by LoriP on Oct 21, 2021 | 176 comments

484.

My first industry job: lies, deceptions, and layoffs (jeremyaboyd.com)

251 points by azhenley on Oct 11, 2021 | 149 comments

485.

Xterm.js (xtermjs.org)

251 points by humility on Oct 8, 2021 | 66 comments

486.

SerenityOS: Year 3 in Review (serenityos.org)

251 points by ingve on Oct 10, 2021 | 46 comments

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Intel’s future now depends on making everyone else’s chips (arstechnica.com)

250 points by feross on Oct 20, 2021 | 187 comments

488.

Why birds can fly over Mount Everest (2020) (nautil.us)

250 points by Phithagoras on Oct 12, 2021 | 108 comments

489.

ProjectM – The most advanced open-source music visualizer (github.com)

250 points by ushakov on Oct 23, 2021 | 84 comments

490.

Offshore havens and hidden riches of world leaders and billionaires exposed (icij.org)

250 points by grawprog on Oct 3, 2021 | 1 comments

491.

Facebook Struggles to Quell Uproar over Instagram’s Effect on Teens (nytimes.com)

249 points by blinding-streak on Oct 2, 2021 | 208 comments

492.

Truths about video game stories (bottomfeeder.substack.com)

248 points by Tomte on Oct 31, 2021 | 323 comments

493.

Oracle's JDK 17 – Free Again for Commercial Use (infoq.com)

248 points by sharjeelsayed on Oct 31, 2021 | 270 comments

494.

Notes from the Meeting on Python GIL Removal Between Python Core and Sam Gross (lukasz.langa.pl)

248 points by rbanffy on Oct 26, 2021 | 98 comments

495.

“Dune” (The Movie), Annotated (maxread.substack.com)

247 points by sebg on Oct 27, 2021 | 323 comments

496.

Fast-Paced Multiplayer (Part I): Client-Server Game Architecture (gabrielgambetta.com)

247 points by mkl95 on Oct 26, 2021 | 85 comments

497.

The main thing about Phenylacetone meth is that there's so much of it (dynomight.net)

246 points by dynm on Oct 28, 2021 | 359 comments

498.

Cryptocurrency loan platform implodes in $130M hack (vice.com)

246 points by mmastrac on Oct 28, 2021 | 238 comments

499.

Too many new papers may mean novel ideas rarely rack up citations (blog.pnas.org)

246 points by pseudolus on Oct 27, 2021 | 229 comments

500.

Tim Minchin on Quitting Comedy (theguardian.com)

246 points by cmsefton on Oct 18, 2021 | 79 comments

501.

Comparing SQLite, DuckDB and Arrow with UN trade data (pacha.dev)

246 points by marcle on Oct 27, 2021 | 79 comments

502.

High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers amid shortage of truck drivers (npr.org)

244 points by pseudolus on Oct 19, 2021 | 474 comments

503.

Facebook whistleblower hearing: Frances Haugen testifies in Washington – live (theguardian.com)

244 points by spzx on Oct 5, 2021 | 207 comments

504.

Real-world data show that filters clean Covid-causing virus from air (nature.com)

244 points by bruceb on Oct 9, 2021 | 162 comments

505.

Roku tells customers it is unable to strike a deal with YouTube (axios.com)

243 points by cwwc on Oct 21, 2021 | 394 comments

506.

The US Is a Banana Republic: The 1% Own More Wealth Than the Entire Middle Class (zerohedge.com)

243 points by 1cvmask on Oct 11, 2021 | 219 comments

507.

Goto (2007) (beej.us)

243 points by bruce343434 on Oct 21, 2021 | 201 comments

508.

Roblox has been down for days and it’s not because of Chipotle (theverge.com)

243 points by Terretta on Oct 31, 2021 | 169 comments

509.

XMonad – The Automated Tiling WM (xmonad.org)

243 points by lolcat_cowsay on Oct 8, 2021 | 163 comments

510.

Underdog Devs: supporting formerly incarcerated and disadvantaged aspiring devs (underdogdevs.org)

243 points by auslegung on Oct 7, 2021 | 107 comments