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Beating the House for the Love of Math

https://advantage-player.com/blog/from-excel-to-web-blackjack-calculator
8•prolly97•4d ago

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prolly97•4d ago
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 :)

Johnny_Bonk•1h ago
Yes plz haha
6oust•1h ago
Can I get a copy please!
IAmBroom•13m ago
Blackjack. Or, in your sentence, "blackjack".

A Black Jack is a celebrity described as Lastname Firstname.

Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk

https://coywolf.com/news/productivity/signal-president-and-vp-warn-agentic-ai-is-insecure-unrelia...
220•speckx•1h ago•64 comments

The Tulip Creative Computer

https://github.com/shorepine/tulipcc
105•apitman•3h ago•27 comments

AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp

https://old.reddit.com/r/BandCamp/comments/1qbw8ba/ai_generated_music_on_bandcamp/
229•cdrnsf•1h ago•158 comments

Confer – End to end encrypted AI chat

https://confer.to/
40•vednig•6h ago•35 comments

Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities with Sex Scandals

https://www.404media.co/instagram-ai-influencers-are-defaming-celebrities-with-sex-scandals/
36•cdrnsf•38m ago•13 comments

Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/11/onlyfans-influencers-us-o-1-visa
229•bookofjoe•3h ago•162 comments

Show HN: Ayder – HTTP-native durable event log written in C (curl as client)

https://github.com/A1darbek/ayder
25•Aydarbek•2h ago•5 comments

Scott Adams has died

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_JrOIo3SE
401•ekianjo•4h ago•775 comments

Apple Creator Studio

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/introducing-apple-creator-studio-an-inspiring-collection-o...
403•lemonlime227•6h ago•336 comments

How to make a damn website (2024)

https://lmnt.me/blog/how-to-make-a-damn-website.html
26•birdculture•2h ago•7 comments

Text-based web browsers

https://cssence.com/2026/text-based-web-browsers/
254•pabs3•15h ago•97 comments

What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025

https://scotthelme.co.uk/what-a-year-of-solar-and-batteries-really-saved-us-in-2025/
205•MattSayar•4h ago•247 comments

Legion Health (YC S21) Hiring Cracked Founding Eng for AI-Native Ops

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/legionhealth/ffdd2b52-eb21-489e-b124-3c0804231424
1•ympatel•3h ago

Git Rebase for the Terrified

https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/01/git-rebase-for-the-terrified/
191•aaronbrethorst•6d ago•205 comments

Show HN: An iOS budget app I've been maintaining since 2011

https://primoco.me/en/
115•Priotecs•9h ago•55 comments

We rolled our own documentation site

https://blog.tangled.org/docs
13•nerdypepper•17h ago•7 comments

Everything you never wanted to know about file locking (2010)

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20101213
35•SmartHypercube•5d ago•9 comments

A university got itself banned from the Linux kernel (2021)

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/30/22410164/linux-kernel-university-of-minnesota-banned-open-source
19•italophil•1h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Ever wanted to look at yourself in Braille?

https://github.com/NishantJoshi00/dith
14•cat-whisperer•4d ago•2 comments

Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home

https://buckscountybeacon.com/2026/01/opinion-local-journalism-is-how-democracy-shows-up-close-to...
337•mooreds•6h ago•225 comments

Show HN: Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever

https://github.com/19-84/redd-archiver
82•19-84•4h ago•11 comments

Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

https://claude.com/blog/cowork-research-preview
1214•adocomplete•1d ago•519 comments

The Case for Blogging in the Ruins

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins/
41•herbertl•2h ago•3 comments

Show HN: FastScheduler – Decorator-first Python task scheduler, async support

https://github.com/MichielMe/fastscheduler
21•michielme•5h ago•6 comments

Inlining – The Ultimate Optimisation

https://xania.org/202512/17-inlining-the-ultimate-optimisation
7•PaulHoule•4d ago•4 comments

Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation

https://discuss.python.org/t/anthropic-has-made-a-large-contribution-to-the-python-software-found...
303•ayhanfuat•5h ago•140 comments

Show HN: SnackBase – Open-source, GxP-compliant back end for Python teams

https://snackbase.dev
47•lalitgehani•7h ago•6 comments

Mozilla's open source AI strategy

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-open-source-ai-strategy/
156•nalinidash•8h ago•133 comments

Robotopia: A 3D, first-person, talking simulator

https://elbowgreasegames.substack.com/p/introducing-robotopia-a-3d-first
97•psawaya•5d ago•45 comments

The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf]

https://s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/cray.cray1.1977.102638650.pdf
142•LordGrey•4d ago•85 comments