Per Thirty Six

perthirtysix.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2021

Per Thirty Six makes interactive explainers on how things work, such as QR codes, synthesizers, JPEG, and Shazam, plus a lottery simulator.

What HN saysHN links it for its interactive explanations; one commenter says the lottery simulator made them stop playing the lottery, and another got an RSS feed added.
22HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts

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    Lottery Simulator (2023)
    3 people · 208 points · first shared 2024 · 93 comments on HN
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    Is Music Just Sound?
    3 people · 10 points · first shared 2026 · 1 comments on HN
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    The Communal Plot
    3 people · 7 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
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    How the Heck Do Solar Panels Work?
    3 people · 5 points · first shared 2026 · 1 comments on HN
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    How the Heck Does JPEG Work?
    2 people · 10 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
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    How the Heck does Shazam work?
    2 people · 9 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
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    The Counterintuitive Birthday Paradox
    2 people · 8 points · first shared 2024 · 1 comments on HN
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    How Smooth Is the Earth, Really?
    2 people · 6 points · first shared 2024 · 1 comments on HN
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    How the Heck Do Traffic Lights Work?
    2 people · 4 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
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    Every Possible Wordle Solution Visualized
    2 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
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    Visualizing data is an art
    1 people · 182 points · first shared 2025 · 61 comments on HN
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    Building a machine learning model to predict the NBA MVP
    1 people · 12 points · first shared 2021 · 10 comments on HN
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    Explore Creative Coding with 30 P5js sketches
    1 people · 7 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN

What HN people wrote when they linked it

andrei_says_ · 2026-07-02
A nice lottery simulator which had me stop playing the lottery https://perthirtysix.com/tool/lottery-simulator
shriracha · 2026-04-23
Thank you! This has been on my list forever, finally added it today: https://perthirtysix.com/rss.xml

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