top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-12-26

Photocatalyst splits water into H and O2 at quantum efficiency near 100%

https://fuelcellsworks.com/news/photocatalyst-that-can-split-water-into-hydrogen-and-oxygen-at-a-quantum-efficiency-close-to-100/

5 years ago

570 upvotes – 284 comments

Fun with IP address parsing

https://blog.dave.tf/post/ip-addr-parsing/

5 years ago

505 upvotes – 146 comments

1937 film explains how a car differential works

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/a25833/1937-film-perfectly-explains-how-a-car-differential-works/

5 years ago

498 upvotes – 144 comments

Print this file, your printer will jam (2008)

https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200811/print_this_file_your_printer_will_jam.html

5 years ago

492 upvotes – 208 comments

What If You Could Do It All Over?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/12/21/what-if-you-could-do-it-all-over

5 years ago

447 upvotes – 442 comments

Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking

https://psyche.co/ideas/talking-out-loud-to-yourself-is-a-technology-for-thinking

5 years ago

423 upvotes – 128 comments

I reverse engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes (2014)

http://features.jsomers.net/how-i-reverse-engineered-google-docs/

5 years ago

413 upvotes – 140 comments

Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii

https://www.reuters.com/article/italy-pompeii-idUSKBN2900D3

5 years ago

344 upvotes – 210 comments

Starship / Super Heavy

https://www.faa.gov/space/stakeholder_engagement/spacex_starship/starship_super_heavy/

5 years ago

327 upvotes – 284 comments

Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25540583

5 years ago

326 upvotes – 248 comments

Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?

https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2020/12/20/lmmem/

5 years ago

321 upvotes – 155 comments

Show HN: Simple-graph – a graph database in SQLite

https://github.com/dpapathanasiou/simple-graph

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 42 comments

Executable PNGs

https://djharper.dev/post/2020/12/26/executable-pngs/

5 years ago

236 upvotes – 39 comments

What’s the best non-smart TV sold today?

https://helpatmyhome.com/best-non-smart-tv/

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 263 comments

An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming Services Didn’t Want It

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/business/media/dissident-jamal-khashoggi-netflix-amazon.html#click=https://t.co/HoBRLE1wPV

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 87 comments

How much math you need for programming (2014)

https://lispmachine.wordpress.com/2014/12/05/how-much-math-you-need-for-programming/

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 178 comments

Lost nuclear device atop of Nanda Devi

https://www.livehistoryindia.com/cover-story/2020/09/18/nanda-devi-nuclear-device

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 126 comments

Noise-canceling headphones without the headphone

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/active-noise-cancellation-using-ldvs

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 117 comments

Run More Stuff in Docker

https://jonathan.bergknoff.com/journal/run-more-stuff-in-docker/

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 286 comments

They want us to be compliant, not secure

https://www.go350.com/posts/they-want-us-to-be-compliant-not-secure/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 174 comments
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