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Francesco Napoletano
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Francesco Napoletano writes napo.dev, a personal blog at coding.napolux.com about programming and career. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Francesco Napoletano's post about a Facebook crawler sending about 7M requests per day to his small WordPress site. The one comment discusses the site's theme and stylesheet, not the writing.
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.
Francesco Napoletano is a highly competent staff software engineer with 20+ years of experience developing a wide range of tools and applications for the web stack.
Most-linked posts?
- A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-11
- Using a USB Foot Pedal for Vibe Coding2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-14
What Hacker News says?
Hello there. I've added a link to your website in the footer! :) https://coding.napolux.com/ Thanks for reaching out!
Comment linking /
on “A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website”Submitted A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website as a story · 1074 points
HN discussionI checked the source and it does indeed mention https://wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/ , but judging from the screenshot there, that theme is just really a blank theme with no style at all, and it was used to include a different stylesheet. The real style is at https://coding.napolux.com/wp-content/themes/coding.napolux.... , which looks like normalize.css followed by a Wordpress adaptation of my stylesheet. The s…
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on “A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website”Submitted A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website (2020) as a story · 51 points
HN discussionI mainly use puppetteer. You can even make it run on a Raspberry Pi and run it all day long. I wrote a tutorial some time ago. https://coding.napolux.com/how-to-scrap-web-page-nodejs-pupp...
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on “Ask HN: How do you scrape and mine data from social media?”Submitted Using a USB Foot Pedal for Vibe Coding as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using a USB Foot Pedal for Vibe Coding as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: a 17+ “love” game for iOS that doesn't suck (redeems in comment) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted I hate it when it happens as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I like that in 2025 NYT games work offline as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Too much code will kill you (Queen cover) as a story · 2 points
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