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Nelson Figueroa
Personal blog · nelson.cloud · on HN as nelsonfigueroaprogrammingsecuritycareer
Nelson Figueroa's personal blog at nelson.cloud covers programming, security and career. Since 2023, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 48 times, most often “AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's post on AI-generated images discouraging readers, and one comments on the author's about-page stance on AI tools such as Claude Code. Nothing says the writing itself is good or bad.
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.
Nelson Figueroa - Software Engineer based in Los Angeles, California. Writing about programming, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and the tech industry.
Most-linked posts?
- AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-11-14
- You Can Detect If Code Is Being Run Inside a Terminal2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-29
What Hacker News says?
Yeah there could be better ways but I've found a handful of sites that are useful like https://indieblog.page/ . I actually wrote up a list of my favorite personal blog discoverability sites here: https://nelson.cloud/how-i-discover-new-blogs/
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on “Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?”Submitted I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews as a story · 468 points
HN discussionLocation: Los Angeles, California, USA Remote: Remote preferred Willing to relocate: Potentially Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ruby, Rails, Python, Bash, Go, HTML, CSS, MySQL, PostgreSQL. Résumé/CV: Refer to LinkedIn or my personal site. I am happy to send over a PDF of my resume if we connect via LinkedIn. Email: nelsonfigueroa07@gmail.com I would describe myself as a mid-level engineer with Inf…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024)”Submitted As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023) as a story · 267 points
HN discussionLocation: Los Angeles, California, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, although this is negotiable Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ruby, Rails, Python, Bash, Go, HTML, CSS. Résumé/CV: Refer to LinkedIn or my personal site. I am happy to send over a PDF of my resume if we connect via LinkedIn. Email: nelsonfigueroa07@gmail.com - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonfigueroa1/ - Personal site: ht…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2024)”Submitted Let's Stop Asking "Why Do You Want to Work for Us?" In Interviews as a story · 127 points
HN discussionLocation: Los Angeles, California, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Potentially Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ruby, Rails, Python, Bash, Go, HTML, CSS, MySQL, PostgreSQL. Résumé/CV: Refer to LinkedIn or my personal site. I am happy to send over a PDF of my resume if we connect via LinkedIn. Email: nelsonfigueroa07@gmail.com I would describe myself as a mid-level engineer with Infrastructure/Cloud and…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2024)”Submitted AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog as a story · 93 points
HN discussionLocation: Los Angeles, California, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, although this is negotiable Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ruby, Rails, Python, Bash, Go, HTML, CSS. Résumé/CV: Refer to LinkedIn or my personal site. I am happy to send over a PDF of my resume if we connect via LinkedIn. Email: nelsonfigueroa07@gmail.com - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonfigueroa1/ - Personal site: ht…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2024)”Submitted I Hate Workday as a story · 26 points
HN discussionLocation: Los Angeles, California, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, but negotiable Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ruby, Rails, Python, Bash, Go, HTML, CSS. Résumé/CV: Refer to LinkedIn or my personal site. I am happy to send over a PDF of my resume if we connect via LinkedIn. Overall I mainly have experience on the cloud/infrastructure side of things. Email: nelsonfigueroa07@gmail.com - LinkedIn:…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2024)”Submitted Company Missions Are Bullshit as a story · 24 points
HN discussionLocation: 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…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)”Submitted I Created My First AI-Assisted Pull Request and I Feel Like a Fraud as a story · 8 points
HN discussionLocation: Los Angeles, California, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, but negotiable Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ruby, Rails, Python, Bash, Go, HTML, CSS. Résumé/CV: Refer to LinkedIn or my personal site. I am happy to send over a PDF of my resume if we connect via LinkedIn. Email: nelsonfigueroa07@gmail.com - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonfigueroa1/ - Personal site: https://nelson.…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2024)”Submitted We Exist Only to Work as a story · 5 points
HN discussionLocation: Los Angeles, California, USA Remote: Remote preferred Willing to relocate: Potentially Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ruby, Rails, Python, Bash, Go, HTML, CSS, MySQL, PostgreSQL. Résumé/CV: Refer to LinkedIn or my personal site. I am happy to send over a PDF of my resume if we connect via LinkedIn. Email: nelsonfigueroa07@gmail.com I would describe myself as a mid-level engineer with Inf…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2024)”Submitted It's 2025, Why Aren't You Using an Ad Blocker? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLocation: Los Angeles, California, USA Remote: Remote preferred, I'm ok with going into an office a few times a week. Willing to relocate: If I really like your company, 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…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025)”Submitted How I Discover New Blogs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLocation: 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: If I really like your company, 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://nel…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)”Submitted Being Poor as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLocation: 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: If I really like your company, 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://nel…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2025)”Submitted AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLocation: Los Angeles, California, USA Remote: Remote preferred, I'm ok with going into an office a few times a week. Willing to relocate: If I really like your company, 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…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2025)”Submitted What I Want to Say in Tech Interviews as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOoooh 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/
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on “Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs”Submitted What I Want to Say in Interviews as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLocation: 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…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)”Submitted How to Use an AWS S3 Bucket as a Pulumi State Back End as a story · 3 points
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