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Show HN: We built a tool to track the millions of dollars I ignore during ads

https://twitter.com/k0ba_eth/status/2020650212906418532

The economics of the Super Bowl (sorry, "Big Game") are absurd. $8M for 30 seconds of airtime.We wanted to quantify what happens when you ignore it with this infotainment app.The Big Flush lets you clock out during commercial breaks and gives you a receipt for the ad value you "destroyed" by being in the bathroom, going for snacks etc.It was built in a 3-4 days for a hackathon. We tried to...

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Re:Rats Play Doom on Friday December 12, 2025 @06:39PM (#46250398)
finally somebody gets it.
Re:Rats Play Doom on Friday December 12, 2025 @05:28PM (#46249791)
bUt liNk wOrks On mY cOmpUteR (seriously its not broken) ..but if so, check out this thread, tldr of the whole rodent VR setup: https://x.com/yolorun_capital/status/1996632980903620886?s=2...
Re:Rats Play Doom on Friday December 12, 2025 @05:10PM (#46249616)
<<< just to verify, yes, he is The Rat Coach. Reach him out if you want to build something cool. (first post we made on the project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46151150 )
Re:Rats Play Doom on Friday December 12, 2025 @05:03PM (#46249552)
thx. :3 years of hard work. you might check out yolorun.capital for similar projects.
Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting on Saturday March 01, 2025 @07:21AM (#43218547)
I'm afraid that Putin's only option left is to escape forward.

Have you heard about "Eurasianism"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasianism https://www.jstor.org/stable/4400555

Alexander Dugin? https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/aleksandr-dugin-vladimir-...

And please, don't forget China and the ideology if Tianxia (天下) and the revisionism on the 100 year humiliation (百年国耻).

Re:Refactoring Relationship on Friday April 05, 2024 @11:19AM (#39943487)
Save time and money in couples counseling by reviewing and implementing this code