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Paradigm2020

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meet.hn/city/10.7763897,106.7011391/Ho-Chi-Minh-City

Making projects/products perception be as good as the products themselves. Looking to meet people building cool, world improving things.

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Paradigm2020··on Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance
A fellow ADHD sufferer.

I first clicked the enter button and, for once thanks to, slow loading I saw the 15 30 etc options...

So went back and clicked 15 and waited and waited not realizing I needed to press enter. So I'd change that to 15 / 20 / 30 / timeless options and no enter option...

Also after being in the experience for a few second probably I was wondering if the timer was actually running... So maybe show the timer for a few seconds (1500, 1459, 1458,1457 fade...)

Also there was no sound when I entered and then when I clicked the button I got the same text as the hackernews description and it was slightly off and unexpected (slightly off probably being a Firefox + android combo) but yeah would appreciate 2 buttons one settings, one information about or alternatively only show it once and afterwards just the panel).

Also tried to install it as an app as I'd love to have it full screen but kept the bar...

Overall it's brilliant and I'm grateful that you went the ai route and launched.

If you wanted to turn it into a paid project you could go the pixel route and offer this version for free and then the option for a one off payment to add different background, fish representations etc... He made enough money to buy a Mac to make a version for iOS as well and seemingly makes a living off it (oc in argentina, probably not possible in a HCOL lpcation.

Anyway thank you so much and hope there is some useful info here.

Have a great day

Paradigm2020··on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
I'm using an extension that does exactly that¹, actually every update of the extension is mostly about then supporting more websites and asking permission to access those.

So maybe more developers could do a all sites and manually select sites option?

¹BPC extension

Paradigm2020··on Pixel 11 Pro Fold
How exactly do you use it ? Another app or default ?
Paradigm2020··on A New Theory of Economics
4. Unknowns Information / opensource / perfect documentation scarcity?

Something that is definitely no longer protected by patents but the original inventor / copycats haven't documented how to build it step by step and/ or insufficiently (possibly even for themselves?) and it is inherently complex?

e.g. Fogbank: Lost Knowledge Regained https://cdn.lanl.gov/files/nwj2-09_62c62.pdf

Paradigm2020··on Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?
Regardless of whether that is true or not... Why not start your own site then?
Paradigm2020··on Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?
You do understand everything is continuously sucked up everywhere right ? (I mean the pentagon mysteriously unaccounted billions have to go somewhere...)
Paradigm2020··on Kimi Work
It's not about copy the best, it's about reducing friction for someone coming from a competing product.

Hence why everyone uses the same play, stop etc "buttons" / signs on "mediaplayers" whether virtual or real. [1]

Unless your user really trusts you / doesn't have an alternative reducing friction is better than being subjectively better [2]

[1] triangle, square etc...

[2] bottom placement versus top placement of browserbar on mobile phones... From an ergonomics perspective way better but from a UX experience worse... Hence chrome changed top to bottom but was forced to change it back on android, while apple forced their users from top to bottom and didn't have to move it back

Paradigm2020··on Kimi Work
Last year, not years ago
Paradigm2020··on The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism
Link please
Paradigm2020··on China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning
I would really like to know where you found that number and that idea...

Gaza is depending on the source 4.5 to 5.8% less populous currently and >10% less populous than had been projected.

And no Hamas didn't declare final solution. They were actively surprised how long they could kill people, makes sense given that the distance to the nearest military base was less than 50km...

However the Israeli leadership, some of who call them untermensch¹, have shrunk their living space by more than 10% making the largest, current times, concentrationcamp² even worse than it was before.

[1] “We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly,” https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/defense-ministe...

[2] note that Hajo Meyer, a holocaust survivor, already called it this in 2005... https://www.sp.nl/nieuws/tribune-09-2006-interview-hajo-meye...

Paradigm2020··on A Year On: The DOGE Disaster
I don't like what he did with doge at all but the principle of innocent until proven guilty is either for all or for none...
Paradigm2020··on Painting the sides of railroad rails white to reduce derailment
There's a lot more low hanging fruit with higher payoff than optimizing all rail in the USA.

Also, a guess, but I think you might benefit from checking out the actual size of countries vs the Mercator projection size of countries.

Paradigm2020··on Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster
I'd say bring someone down is a bit exagerated (distraction is more common) and not assuming the good fate we're supposed to have. Could also be him feeling that it is relevant / applicable ...

The classical saying is “The plural of anecdote is not data.”... hence you should in general on hn bring some actual data based facts (hence me not just using personal experience but also mentioning doctors/1000 metric)

But anyway glad we agree on Europe not 1 and sad to hear about bad healthcare in Poland, hope you get some politicians who actually care to fix it.

Paradigm2020··on Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster
You call strawman on someone else and show up with anecdata... And even anecdata with so little information as to be useless.

In all honesty one of the biggest problems in all these discussion is that there is no Europe healthcare / trains /...

Spain has the second most rail in the world per Capita and together with France are one of the best experiences (Japan and China in their own league) while Germany is currently shit and definitely not up to its "reputation".

Public healthcare in Belgium (personal experience, doctors / 1000 people etc) is amongst the best in the world while I guess based on your comment the one in poland is not that good ?

Nevermind the USA that has places like Appalachia and San Francisco

Paradigm2020··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
Maybe put it in your hn bio as well than ? Easier to put a reminder to check that one
Paradigm2020··on MacKenzie Scott's giving, in quality-adjusted life years
Not sure I understand what you mean... Anyway have a pleasant evening/day
Paradigm2020··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
The average vietnamese person in Saigon earns <400$ a month.

Why would you go to vinmec if you can use google translate / chatgpt to gwt better and cheaper service.

Border runs default are 4 times a year but only need to cost 140$ each or cheaper if you're willing to organize / drive yourself.

Comfortable is subjective and humans can change. Yay.

Well if you wanna move the posts and all... But even then with ai etc a degree becomes less relevant rather than your /their problem solving ability

Paradigm2020··on Alex Karp Is Saying What Every Angry CEO Is Thinking About AI
It's always easy to find the ones who do 'bad" but I'm sure you can find the others as well.

And well "be the change you want to see" is a good one

Paradigm2020··on MacKenzie Scott's giving, in quality-adjusted life years
Someone else would have won the everything store / market if bezos had never been born...
Paradigm2020··on MacKenzie Scott's giving, in quality-adjusted life years
Would you agree that buying / getting a mega yacht build is even less creative and definitely countless times less impactful ?
Paradigm2020··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
Website is not working in vietnam
Paradigm2020··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
Github / codeberg / website to follow up on progress?
Paradigm2020··on Alex Karp Is Saying What Every Angry CEO Is Thinking About AI
Solar panels, battery storage, micro mobility (partially), quite a few internet driven innovations (wise, free communication, etc etc) the list goes on and on.

The problem is that investment used to be to fund risky businesses with unlimited upside and now a lot gets funded for capture / rent seeking behavior...

Anyway don't know your background but there are plenty of projects to work on that are a net positive

Paradigm2020··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
I've lived in Vietnam on and off for several months at a time. One of the safest countries anywhere ( as long as you don't badmouth the government)

Easy to live on sub 700$ a month if you're happy with air conditioned studio, mostly asian food, scooter and not going to high end bars.

Get the 1 bedroom apartment, quite often takeaway/delivered western food sub 1500$ a month.

Go eat out western food everyday, live in a 3 bedroom in the nicest district go to fancy bars etc and yeah maybe you can reach your 5k a month...

People have no clue / are not willing to experience adjustment for 3 weeks... But easily possible to live here for budgets mentioned above...

Paradigm2020··on Biohacker seeking immortality afflicted with incurable 'stomach eating' disease
Can easily find videos online documenting that he doesn't actually release all data as he claims and that the supplements he sells have serious flaws.
Paradigm2020··on CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps
But intellegency agencies would like an edge, not that everyone has the same info as them...
Paradigm2020··on CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps
Yes! If you want to you could even select to show only accessibility related "quests".
Paradigm2020··on Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
Related to the bricks and minifigs story checkout the coffeezilla episode on it
Paradigm2020··on Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says
But you just said in hk they were disabled? So through a hk vpn still disabled?
Paradigm2020··on GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks
1. I said American bombs. I didn't say dropped by American pilots. But provided, directly by the USA to Israel.

2. The whole idea is that open source means you don't have to care about "native". Look up nginx for a great example.

3. America from ww1 ish, definitely after ww2 and until about 2005/10 had a very very good reputation in most of Europe. The obama years gave it a bump up as well So basically for about 80-90% of the last 100yrs.

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