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runnr_az

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Ultramarathon runner and full stack developer in Scottsdale, AZ. @runnr_az
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runnr_az··on Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time
As an Arizona resident, my recent Honda CRV's clock is off by an hour for half the year. Since usually the carplay display overrides the clock, it's no big deal, but it cracks me up that, despite being a professional programmer, I have yet to figure out how to set it correctly
runnr_az··on School has given straight-a grades to the student, who can't do masic math
basic bath
runnr_az··on Jailbreaking the Switch 2
I will defeat you all at Spaceward Ho!
runnr_az··on LLM AssBench
Frontier models rendering backends
runnr_az··on Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
finger.farm finger server...
runnr_az··on Helium balloon lifts up to two tons of building material over Tibet's mountains
how do they guide it?
runnr_az··on Kalshi to allow trading on borrowed funds
I don't really get how people are getting busted for insider trading on these platforms. Sure, it's a TOS violation, but it's not like these are SEC regulated markets... I guess I'd just assume that all the smart money was always insiders
runnr_az··on Show HN: Repodify: Make Podcasts Out of Podcasts
Hi sharks... I'm Jon and this is my project Repodify.app

Share all your podcast appearances, create a favorites list to share with friends, gather all the episodes around a single topic.

Select the episodes you love and stitch them together in your own custom podcast feed...

- Choose episodes from both PodcastIndex and Apple Podcast directories

- Generate a standard rss xml feed

- Plays directly from the source... doesn't re-host the audio or mess with the creator's content in any way

- Record or upload your own audio and put it right into your feed

runnr_az··on Procrastination study by Duke's Dan Ariely retracted
i never got around to it
runnr_az··on Scientists Discover Vast Underground 'Anomaly' on Mars
The Hollow Mars: that's where Space Godzilla lives
runnr_az··on Finger: the 1971 social network that never died
Haha... looks like I gotta get finger.farm up and running again... :)

Thx for the mention blogger!

https://github.com/jonroig/finger.farm

runnr_az··on America's Big Cities Are Rapidly Losing Kids
During the pandemic, my neighborhood in Scottsdale saw a huge increase of families with kids moving from Chicago / Seattle / SF. Remote workers, etc... We've got good public school / parks / places to roam, at the time represented a huge bargain in home pricing.

(Anecdotal but reflected by a rapid increase in home values that came with that.)

runnr_az··on Havana syndrome: US to compensate victims
that seems weird, right?
runnr_az··on JWT is a scam and your app doesn't need it
Yeah... but you can't just move a session across a heterogeneous set of servers with different backends, etc... Maybe some of your APIs are on one platform, the apps themselves on another. There are several libs that can help you do that.
runnr_az··on JWT is a scam and your app doesn't need it
Eh. JWTs are super handy if you have a single web experience spread across multiple backend apps on the same domain, with a single SSO server to set up the user auth. Definitely not for storing anything sensitive, but treating it like a fancy session cookie with the minimal amount one needs to securely access resources - customerId or whatever - makes life a lot easier than trying to wire up cookie / session management across a lot of different, disparate apps.
runnr_az··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce
I think it means - we're spending more money on AI thus we don't have as much to spend on people
runnr_az··on FBI investigating leaks to journalist who wrote explosive article on Kash Pate
what is he, chopped liver?
runnr_az··on Trump fires NSF's oversight board
Don't worry - I'm sure the people he hires will be super super competent, like the rest of the folks he's hired to run departments and whatnot
runnr_az··on Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps
How accurate does the laser have to be to hit the base station?
runnr_az··on Samsung to Stop Selling $2,899 TriFold Phone After Three Months
Unlike other luxury goods, it's interesting how small the fancy phone market is...
runnr_az··on 'I am blown away by it,' Ex-Windows Chief calls MacBook Neo 'paradigm-shifting'
I am blown away by the number of ads on that page
runnr_az··on A man who broke into jail
Fascinating story... This was covered on the GoneSouth podcast as well:

Part 1: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/274-gone-south-88714714/episo... Part 2: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/274-gone-south-88714714/episo...

I assume this is following the podcast -> (new yorker / atlantic) article -> netflix doc pipeline. In a good way.

runnr_az··on 2 in 5 Americans did not read a single book in 2025
I assume you know, by now, that everyone poops
runnr_az··on What's Hiding Inside Haribo's Power Bank and Headphones?
Good thing you didn’t try and drink the hot gummy bear juice… turns out, molten sugar is surprisingly brutal
runnr_az··on iPhone Pocket
It's definitely a signal
runnr_az··on James Watson has died
97 years old... must've had good genes...
runnr_az··on Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model
same. will stop back by in a day or two when the site has a chance to recover
runnr_az··on Delivery is killing restaurant culture
I definitely see a steady stream of Dashers come into the coffee shops I work out of... I'm still sort of shocked at how many people use these services, given how expensive they are: "More than half of adults under 45 use delivery at least once a week, and 13 percent use it once a day. Five percent use it multiple times a day. But the delivery boom isn’t confined to young people or to urbanites: About one in eight Baby Boomers uses delivery once a week, and so does about one in five rural dwellers."
runnr_az··on Ask HN: What are some impressive vibe coding projects?
https://run-phx.com/ is a guide to trail running in PHX... wrote all the content / reviews, but was happy to let claude handle the NextJS / Firebase backend work. Remarkable what a good job it did, although it was definitely a conversation
runnr_az··on America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom
Well... sure. Capitalists are looking for the best rate of return when they deploy their investments, they're looking at the money to be made financing datacenters vs other things, datacenters are winning.
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