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I Showed My Friends My New Website. They Asked One Question: “How Much Will It Make?”
Four days after launching ChineseFortuneTools.com, I showed my friends. They asked how much it would make. I had no answer. Here is why I am building it anyway.
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I Bought Cheap Hosting Before I Had a Business Plan
I bought four years of Hostinger hosting before I had a single idea of what to put on it. What happened next: an AI conversation, a wheelpage rabbit hole, and a TikTok-style Chinese wisdom interface I built in an afternoon.
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I Bought Another Domain. Then I Accidentally Started Building a Second Internet Business.
I wasn’t planning to build another website. Then I bought another hosting plan — not because I had a brilliant business idea, but because it was cheap. That’s how ChineseFortuneTools started.
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6 AIs Tried to Guess My Star Sign Without Asking My Birthday. One Found a Clever Trick. (AI Generated)
I gave 6 AI chatbots one rule: guess my Western zodiac sign without asking my birthday. Their strategies ranged from pure binary math to mystical 2-round magic — and the differences revealed how each AI thinks.
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I Challenged 6 AIs With the Same Math Puzzle — They Couldn’t Agree
I gave 6 AI models the same math puzzle: design a perfect Chinese Zodiac guessing game. Five said 4 questions minimum. Grok said 3. ChatGPT challenged the premise. The disagreement wasn’t about math — it was about what ‘success’ meant to each model.
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How to Give AI Better Evidence: Lessons From a Security Investigation That Almost Failed
AI gave me a confident wrong answer — not because it’s weak, but because I gave it symptoms instead of evidence. Here’s the framework I changed.
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The AI Got It Wrong — Then Got It Right
I blamed 51.la for a redirect attack on my site. The AI agreed. We were wrong. Here’s what actually caused it and how AI helped find the real answer.
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AI Levels the Playing Field in Legal Disputes — Or Does It Just Hand Better Weapons to the Powerful?
I used AI to help my friend write a labor arbitration defense. It worked. Then I realized something uncomfortable about who benefits most when both sides in a legal dispute have access to the same tools.
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I Let AI Migrate My WordPress Site to Hostinger. It Went Horribly Wrong.
I thought migrating WordPress to Hostinger would take an hour. Instead: a 460MB backup that maxed out my disk quota, three failed FTP attempts, a PHP upload limit, broken JavaScript, and a lazy-loading plugin. AI helped me through all of it — eventually.
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I Asked 7 AIs How to Make My Wife Feel Loved on Our 18th Anniversary
I’m not naturally good at romantic gestures. So when our 18th anniversary arrived with no plan, I asked seven AIs what I should do. What they agreed on surprised me.
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I Rewrote My Desk Break Timer 30+ Times. It Still Has One User: Me.
One ordinary person’s honest look at building a gamified standup reminder through 30+ versions, zero users (except himself), and why that’s not a reason to stop.
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My Friend’s Company Got Hacked: How AI Cut 14-Server Triage from 14 Hours to 30 Minutes
My friend Leo called at midnight — 14 servers down, DDoS attack, suspected webshells. Manual Linux incident response was taking 1 hour per machine. AI-generated triage scripts cut it to 2 minutes per machine, 30 minutes total. Here’s exactly what he ran.
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It Took an AI to Show Me My Leverage Wasn’t Making Me Any Money — and I Overspent 40% on Opus5 Tokens Writing It
I have used margin in my brokerage account, on and off, for about three years. My reasoning was the sentence every retail investor has heard: moderate leverage increases returns. I never checked it. Not once. I checked the companies I bought — cash flow, margins, competitive position, all of it. But the leverage sitting underneath those…
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We Asked AI to Judge Our Grocery Fight. It Didn’t Side With Either of Us.
I waited an hour at a Chinese supermarket for 8pm discounts. My wife was upset. I fed the photos to an AI expecting it to prove I was right. It did the math — but then it pointed out the question I’d actually missed.
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From 30MB of Word Files to a 400KB App: How AI Changed My Son’s English Study
China’s college entrance exam — the Gaokao — is taken by 12 million students every year. One exam. One day. Every major life decision that follows. My son is one of those 12 million. Last month I found him at his desk at 11pm, notebook open, writing the letter C in a column of 20…
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The SEO Strategy Most AI Tool Builders Ignore: GitHub Awesome Lists
I discovered GitHub Awesome Lists as an SEO strategy. Here is what actually happened after 42 pull requests: 2 merged, 9 rejected (5 by the same person), 31 still pending.
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AI Didn’t Replace My Voice. It Finally Let the World Hear It.
A disabled Chinese woman sews shoe insoles with her mouth to feed her daughters. One afternoon, I used AI to make sure the world could hear her story.
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I Asked 7 AI Models Which Chinese AI Stock They’d Hold for 3 Years. The Results Were 6-1.
I made a mistake this morning. Or did I? At market open, I bought 100 shares of Zhongji Innolight (300308) at ¥920. Within two hours, it had dropped to ¥847. I was down ¥7,300 — roughly 8% — before lunch. This is Part 2 of an ongoing series. Part 1: Before Buying Innolight, I Asked…
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I Asked 4 AIs Which One Lies the Most. They Named Names.
I asked four AI models the same question. Not “which AI is best.” Not “which AI do you recommend.” I asked: which AI lies the most — including yourself? I expected deflection. Corporate hedging. Careful non-answers about how “all models have limitations.” Instead, they named names. Including their own. The Question I Asked All Four…
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I Asked Each AI How to Squeeze the Most Out of Its Rival
I paid $480 a year for Claude Pro and ChatGPT Plus. I was pretty sure I was only getting about 30% of the value. So I ran a simple experiment: I asked each AI how to squeeze the most out of the other one. I expected both to quietly promote themselves. Instead, one of them…