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napolux

6,342 karma · joined February 2, 2012

Italian Staff Software Engineer
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napolux··on Italy region: +200% tax on datacenters built in green/agricultural areas
that's the argument an AI will make to preserve itself.
napolux··on Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence
lost good money on the Eupolus Scandal.
napolux··on Pokélike
Lovely, but expect a take-down from nintendo lawyers in some minutes.
napolux··on AI is killing All About Berlin
I've spent a lot of time in Berlin, and thanks to your website it was easier than expected.

:)

napolux··on Scheduled GitHub Actions are now useless
Can confirm this. There's at least 4 hour delays on my stuff, I can live with that since it's not really importat what time they run if it's within the day.
napolux··on Zed is 1.0
Zed is one of my fav. piece of software of the last years :)
napolux··on HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'
do we have already an HN user creating "who-left-gh.net"? (domain is free)
napolux··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
we can be ai-powered, we can be engineers.

but most of all we’re humans :)

happy to see that some humans can still feel emotions, real emotions, and not be ashamed by them.

napolux··on Tiled Words 6 Month Update
great game. i'm too stupid to play it, but i love it!
napolux··on North Korean IT workers are stealing remote jobs: Americans are helping them
https://archive.is/sS6Qv
napolux··on Incident with multple GitHub services
0 nines.
napolux··on SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
> despite no longer being in vogue with consumer devs Cursor still has a lot of developer data that can assist in building a model

care to share more about this?

napolux··on Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
fines are negligible for these companies, so i also expect these policies to be applied to eu employees without telling them
napolux··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
Also Stanley's Fubar and CAT 797 trucks are commercially available, doesn't mean I will need one of those to change my phone battery :)
napolux··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
better than glued.
napolux··on Figma's woes compound with Claude Design
I tested it yesterday. Kinda impressive, but also design output is pretty boring.
napolux··on Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
DO IPs are way worse.

source: moved away from DO for this very reason.

napolux··on Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%
Token consumption is huge compared to 4.6 even for smaller tasks. Just by "reasoning" after my first prompt this morning I went over 50% over the 5 hours quota.
napolux··on Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
:(

Dunno which kind of disability, but at some point you being the good brother can reach a limit.

napolux··on Muse Spark: Scaling Towards Personal Superintelligence
I can't login. It sends me always the same code and it's not correct for them
napolux··on Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs
scoring will bring spam and voting brigades if not managed properly
napolux··on Apple Just Lost Me
Age verification is just a way to finally tell advertisers you're not an AI, so they can stop wasting money on purchasing AI-flooded-views.

Change my mmind

napolux··on Ask HN: Apple terminated our dev account over a rogue employee
How about your android version?

How hard it will be to rewrite it for the web?

If it's react native or flutter probably not that hard, you can go back online with some struggle, but it's at least a way.

napolux··on Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act
So the theory of advertisers needing a way to verify who’s a bot and who’s not is not that crazy
napolux··on Show HN: Thermal Receipt Printers – Markdown and Web UI
Same. Plus I have an USB barcode scanner somewhere :D
napolux··on The 49MB web page
and the NYT web team was praised as one of the best in the world some (many?) years ago.
napolux··on 2026 tech layoffs reach 45,000 in March
AI as a real impact or more as an excuse?
napolux··on Digg is gone again
Same for italian forums. I don't believe bot and spam are to be blamed fully.

It was just a copy of reddit. How useful?

napolux··on Italian prosecutors seek trial for Amazon, 4 execs in alleged $1.4B tax evasion
It usually works more like:

  - we want 1.4B, but it will take 10 years in courts
  - best I can do is 800M (or even lower)
  - ok, we'll take it
source: I'm italian and many tech giants did this already. Apple opened an academy in Naples too.
napolux··on Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
Congrats!
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