Hacker News: nelsonfigueroa

New comment by nelsonfigueroa in "12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit"

nelsonfigueroa — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:12:57 +0000

Well, at least they're not exactly hiding it.

New comment by nelsonfigueroa in "12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit"

nelsonfigueroa — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:12:27 +0000

SEO purposes would be my guess

New comment by nelsonfigueroa in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

nelsonfigueroa — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:30:01 +0000

Ooooh I love these indie web aggregators. I wrote about some of my favorite ones here if anyone's curious: https://nelson.cloud/how-i-discover-new-blogs/.

But here are some of my fav ways to discover blogs:

- https://minifeed.net/welcome

- https://indieblog.page/

- https://1mb.club/

- https://512kb.club/

- https://250kb.club/

I created my first AI-assisted pull request

nelsonfigueroa — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:42:38 +0000

Article URL: https://nelson.cloud/i-created-my-first-ai-assisted-pull-request-and-i-feel-like-a-fraud/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47497679

Points: 90

# Comments: 77

New comment by nelsonfigueroa in "Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)"

nelsonfigueroa — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:51:52 +0000

> Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming

I'm a big time leetcode interview hater and reading that felt validating. Why the f*ck am I always asked about algorithms.

New comment by nelsonfigueroa in "Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise to drove engagement, say whistleblowers"

nelsonfigueroa — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:57:52 +0000

I can't say I'm surprised and I think most people wouldn't be surprised either. But it's always good to have evidence.

New comment by nelsonfigueroa in "The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)"

nelsonfigueroa — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:31:10 +0000

This whole article reeks of AI slop

New comment by nelsonfigueroa in "Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?"

nelsonfigueroa — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:26:18 +0000

I'm not an insider but over time I've come to realize that safety doesn't matter if it gets in the way of profits.

New comment by nelsonfigueroa in "How not to answer the salary question"

nelsonfigueroa — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:56:39 +0000

> "Error establishing a database connection"

RIP, looks like the site got hugged.

New comment by nelsonfigueroa in "I’m joining OpenAI"

nelsonfigueroa — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:19:09 +0000

> "What I want is to change the world".

I don't know if you'll achieve that at OpenAI or if it'll even be a good change for the world, but I genuinely wish you the best. Regardless of the news around OpenAI I still think it's great that a personal project got you a position at a company like that.

New comment by nelsonfigueroa in "4chan for Clankers"

nelsonfigueroa — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 22:20:30 +0000

I mean it has the 4chan aesthetic but that's about it.

New comment by nelsonfigueroa in "An Update on Heroku"

nelsonfigueroa — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:19:35 +0000

The corporate speak is crazy. I think the update boils down to this sentence:

> Enterprise Account contracts will no longer be offered to new customers

New comment by nelsonfigueroa in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)"

nelsonfigueroa — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:45:41 +0000

Location: Los Angeles, California, USA

Remote: Remote preferred, I'm ok with going into an office a few times a week if it's nearby.

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi, Ruby, Rails, Python, Bash, Go, HTML, CSS, MySQL, PostgreSQL.

Résumé/CV: Check out LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonfigueroa1/, or my personal site: https://nelson.cloud/about. Happy to send over a PDF via LinkedIn as well.

Email: nelsonfigueroa07@gmail.com

I'm looking to get back into a more typical Software Engineering role rather than my current customer-facing position as a "Customer Support Engineer". I would describe myself as a mid-level engineer, but the goal is to reach a senior level title at a company with a high bar.

New comment by nelsonfigueroa in "Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?"

nelsonfigueroa — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:30:28 +0000

Some I like:

https://www.writesoftwarewell.com/ - very good software posts, mostly around Ruby on Rails.

https://crankysec.com/ - Cybersecurity rants mostly, fun to read.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/ - Ed Zitron's writings. Good counterpoints to all the AI hype these days.

These come up often on HN but I'll call them out anyway:

https://jvns.ca/ - Julia Evans, good technical content all around.

https://xeiaso.net/ - Xe Iaso, good technical content all around once again

New comment by nelsonfigueroa in "Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?"

nelsonfigueroa — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:19:59 +0000

You can actually just paste the link to a youtube channel in your RSS reader and it should work. At least for me it works with NetNewsWire. For example, you should be able to copy and paste this directly into your RSS reader: https://www.youtube.com/@freecodecamp

New comment by nelsonfigueroa in "Bye Bye Gmail"

nelsonfigueroa — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:37:31 +0000

That is not what my comment is about.

New comment by nelsonfigueroa in "Bye Bye Gmail"

nelsonfigueroa — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:08:05 +0000

Looked up Mimestream. So it's a subscription-based app that basically gives you nicer UI/UX for your google emails. Oof.

New comment by nelsonfigueroa in "Microslop: A Web Browser Extension"

nelsonfigueroa — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 20:52:09 +0000

Lol, I'm going to run this for a while on Firefox. I also had a similar idea to swap out "prediction markets" to "gambling".

New comment by nelsonfigueroa in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

nelsonfigueroa — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:29:22 +0000

I'm over at https://nelson.cloud

I appreciate your efforts! I love stumbling across personal sites. I put together a list of other personal site directories some time ago [0]. I'll be adding this post to that list!

[0] https://nelson.cloud/how-i-discover-new-blogs/

What I Want to Say in Interviews

nelsonfigueroa — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:03:42 +0000

Article URL: https://nelson.cloud/what-i-actually-want-to-say-in-tech-interviews/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46465416

Points: 4

# Comments: 0