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Nicola Iarocci
Personal blog · nicolaiarocci.com · on HN as nicolaprogrammingai
Nicola Iarocci's personal blog at nicolaiarocci.com covers programming and ai. Since 2017, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on the financial results of the Kagi search company, including its reported profitability, and a write-up about a MySQL exit post. HN readers cite these as sources in discussions of those topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This is the personal website of Nicola Iarocci, Software Craftsman.
What Hacker News says?
https://nicolaiarocci.com/kagi-is-profitable/ They reached profitability one year ago, two years into their existence. It’s a cool company. Edit: Corrected from two years to one year
Comment linking /kagi-is-profitable/
on “Kagi Reaches 50k Users”Submitted AI coding is less fun as a story · 29 points
HN discussionhttps://nicolaiarocci.com Is my personal website, mostly a blog with a mix of my FOSS activity (project updates, mostly Python and C#), book reviews, links that catch my attention, hikes, etc.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted People won't use IDEs anymore as a story · 3 points
HN discussionReminded me of Gunderson's exit post. Unfortunately I can't find it anymore, but found a small write-up about it: https://nicolaiarocci.com/a-big-nail-in-the-coffin-of-mysql/
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on a deleted threadSubmitted The future belongs to small companies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Early Morning Walks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are We Trek Yet? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python support in Visual Studio 2017 or the lack thereof as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An AI-generated pull request that makes sense as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A 10x faster TypeScript, but that's not the point as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You're probably using the wrong dictionary as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Drama Going on at the .NET Foundation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python Workload Pulled Off Visual Studio 2017 RC3 as a story · 1 points
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