Hacker News: prolly97

New comment by prolly97 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)"

prolly97 — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:24:37 +0000

Are you getting any sales on Lobsterpack? Just curious :)

Show HN: hot or not for .ai websites

prolly97 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:36:05 +0000

I originally took all domains crawled by CommonCrawl and made my own private tool for exploring the public web. I've used it to get some sense/intuition for what's being made by others. It's helped me avoid proposing the 100th agentic marketing SaaS, when brainstorming with friends :)

So thought others might see the fun in exploring websites this way. I've tried my best to circumvent the Cookie popups for the pictures, and have removed most parked domains, access denied, bad gateway etc. I've also filtered out subdomains, as there's too much noise.

Lmk if there's anything else about it you'd like to know.

Only the frontend and two basic pg tables have been made specifically for this project. The rest have been part of other hobby projects, e.g. parsing CC indexes (and WET data), taking screenshots, saving and keeping it all updated etc.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655522

Points: 1

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New comment by prolly97 in "Beating the House for the Love of Math"

prolly97 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:44:03 +0000

Also added HACKERNEWS95 as a coupon code in Stripe :)

New comment by prolly97 in "Beating the House for the Love of Math"

prolly97 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:09:31 +0000

ofc, if you don't want the Excel sheet, you can find my contact details in my profile. Otherwise you get free access to the web version (which is far better), just by signing in with Google (you don't actually have to sign up to anything through the affiliate link, you can just wait out the timer).

New comment by prolly97 in "Beating the House for the Love of Math"

prolly97 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:22:27 +0000

I made an app to calculate exact EV and optimal strategy for Black Jack.

Originally I made it in a Google Sheet/Excel. The calculations are much clearer in Excel, so DM me if you want a copy :)

Beating the House for the Love of Math

prolly97 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:22:27 +0000

Article URL: https://advantage-player.com/blog/from-excel-to-web-blackjack-calculator

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46554125

Points: 11

# Comments: 6

New comment by prolly97 in "Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws"

prolly97 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 22:11:27 +0000

I don't want an internet designed by lawyers and politicians. And I'm afraid that's what this level of regulation and enforcement would create.

New comment by prolly97 in "Claude Code weekly rate limits"

prolly97 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 06:53:52 +0000

> Loosing it for a couple of days is more palatable

Sorry, I'll just be "that guy" for a moment. Assuming that access is cut at a random time during the week, the average number of days without Claude would be 3.5. That's not reasonable as it's dependant on usage. So assume that you've always been just shy of hitting the limit, and you increase usage by 50%, then you'd hit the limit 4.67 days in. Just 2-3 hours shy of the weekend - a sort of reward for the week's increased effort.

Have a blessed Thuesday.

New comment by prolly97 in "Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads"

prolly97 — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 06:16:58 +0000

This might more be a European thing, but over here some of the sellers on marketplaces like Amazon, are linked with organised VAT/Tax fraud. While I can't say it's all, it'll all things being equal, be baked in to the competitive dynamics. Thus undercutting legal operators, or destroying their profit (incentive) to provide good or domestically produced wares. There's a podcast episode from some ML (money laundering) specialists, that make mention of it. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/trigger-warning/id1448...

New comment by prolly97 in "23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself"

prolly97 — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:51:04 +0000

Luckily most of us live in democracies, where we can just decide whether we want the rules to allow this kind of differentiation.

New comment by prolly97 in "Where are Mr. Beast's early sponsors now?"

prolly97 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 13:59:43 +0000

Was about to comment something to the same effect. He's got 341 million subscribers on youtube (on his english channel). If we imagine that there's 1,35 billion english speakers worldwide (the figure that came up on Google when I searched), that means that 25% of english speakes actively follow him on Youtube.

While I agree that a 13 y.o. is probably more likely to follow him than a 30 y.o., his reach is anything but limited to the teens & children segment.

Chamath Palihapitiya have have worn Mr. Beast merch on multiple occasions on the All In pod as well - which I find kinda funny :D

New comment by prolly97 in "Scientists Say Our Water Cycle Has Started Breaking Down"

prolly97 — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 08:38:50 +0000

Uhu.. And how do we decide which people we don't want to exist? Is it last in first out? - "we were here first"?

As one of the 8 billion on this earth, I'm rather happy being alive. And would love to give that gift to someone else. As many as possible, in fact. You're proposing a world where I should be happy not to have my siblings in my life. Which is absolutely insane. Your view only makes sense from the POV of those surviving or being the lucky chosen ones. I'd rather have my siblings + have to figure out how to fix issues with water supply etc. along the way, than not have my siblings and not have meaningful 'problems' to work on.

We've solved harder problems. Throwing 7 billion people under the bus, because a problem seems a little hard, seems idiotic.

New comment by prolly97 in "Filling Nuclear Power's $5T Hole Is Beyond the Banks"

prolly97 — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 16:12:44 +0000

Thanks... it's as if we've completely forgotten to think about 2nd order effects, let alone 3rd or nth order. Whether it's suffocating GDPR, AML/KYC or other regulation, we're really making an effort to suffocate any future development and initiative.