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Rex St. John
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Rex St. John's personal blog at rexstjohn.com covers programming, ai and startups. Since 2013, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Why React Native won't work”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment is a personal account of losing 40lbs with intermittent fasting after low-carb diets failed, and it does not discuss the post. The linked posts cover reversing type 2 diabetes with a low-calorie diet.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Rex St. John builds developer ecosystems for AI, semiconductors, and decentralized infrastructure. Founder of Verafy.ai. Ex-NVIDIA, Arm, Intel, Saga, and Anza.
Most-linked posts?
- Why React Native won't work2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-29
What Hacker News says?
Hello, I see many people on here deriding low calorie diets as “starving.” As someone who was 100+lbs overweight I can attest that low-carb, diet, exercise, weight training were not sufficient to help. For whatever reason, genetics combined with work and lifestyle, I was unsuccessful with any commonly recommended diet for reducing body mass, I tried for years. Recently, I lost 40lbs using intermittent fasting and th…
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