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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025) on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @02:57PM (#45815244)
fyi your email alias is not working
Re:Ross Ulbricht was just granted a full pardon on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @01:02AM (#42789534)
This thread really shows how unhinged the community is. Dude hired contract killers and ran the most prolific darkweb forum for whatever. He's not some martyr. He's just a bum.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024) on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @05:54PM (#41714662)
Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Yes or local

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: TPM for big tech hardware and have built world class prototyping and design studios

Résumé/CV: https://standardresume.co/r/W85eBbltvubl0jVBCoi8M

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heymatt

I've been something like a Hardware T/PM for 10 years for big tech. Making hardware, managing hardware, budgeting and financing hardware, writing software to manage process, creating PMO, lots of 0 to 1 projects. If you have some big ambiguous difficult job to fill I'm interested.

Report to AG, if a company doesn't incentivize its staff to be legally compliant its a risk to the business
Re:Ask HN: Can we delete our accounts? on Sunday November 27, 2022 @02:21PM (#33765770)
which cultural tinfoil hats do you hang on your head, budy
Re:Ask HN: Can we delete our accounts? on Sunday November 27, 2022 @02:20PM (#33765755)
"it applies to any entity (any person, business, or organization) that collects or processes personal data from any person in the European Union"

It should

Being older has its advantages. You have a lot more "common" sense, but not all older people do, some have kept emotional debt, trauma, various things that can hold them up from getting product market fit, leading teams and organizations, dealing with having a lot or not a lot of money, etc. If I recall, uncited, from my evening, later-in-life MBA program, the more successful startup founders/cofounders/etc are all in their late 30's and 40's. Weeds out the kids, you're serious. Staring at a seed round of VC's with life partners, spouses, kids, whatever you have in life that you're trying to maintain and help support, those are good things. VC that want to weed you out are definitely not worth it.

Leaving work to pursue a startup should only happen when you can prove well enough to VC's you're accreting revenues just barely worth investing in (to very worth investing in). If you're sane, I would wait until you can't move forward without some seed/VC and then look around for it- starting with people you know, and familiarize yourself with how funding/ownership/etc works.

You don't need to go through ycombinator, although its very worthwhile, you can just run a startup on the side or quit your job once its up and running.

If your startup is a unicorn, maybe wait a year before quitting your job, so the job market is ripping again when you fail :)

Re:Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on? on Friday September 16, 2022 @07:45PM (#32873462)
All my vet friends need this. Veterinary medicine suicide rate is pretty high.
Re:Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on? on Friday September 16, 2022 @07:44PM (#32873453)
I feel like if you advertise this to the various "Mechanical Keyboard" communities they'd lose their shit in a positive way. r/mechanicalkeyboard is a main public one
Re:Letters about Soap (1997) on Friday September 09, 2022 @11:10PM (#32787379)
This is the correct response
Beat them to upping the burn rate by.. a lot, until neither of you own anything.

Everyone needs financial controls and financial accountability. No one should be able to spend without cosigners. If you set that up early, it will be in your company's blood. If you don't, you will ALWAYS have a culture of wastage.

Re:The Trouble with 5G on Sunday September 04, 2022 @10:51PM (#32719979)
Posts like this remind me most of HN just likes to hear itself talk. Health conspiracy, incorrect information, linking posts to incorrect information...
Re:Tell HN: Spammed by a Hacker News Enthusiast on Friday August 26, 2022 @02:00PM (#32610742)
Report the mailscarp/mailscrap/etc domains to spam trackers everywhere
My first salaried job was 34k not that long ago. I make loads more but still. Grads deserve better pay than that especially in M/HCOL cities. Hell everyone does.
Re:Bank of America Email: “Update Your iPhone” on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @02:45PM (#32583949)
Updates that Apple, or anyone (Microsoft etc) pushes to customers has been internally tested for a while on different rings of risk. People who write the code run it relentlessly to start to catch all the issues and then start pushing out updates to varying pools of people who can take those small bits of risk of a bug here or there, and poke holes in it. Once it reaches the company's QC metrics it is pushed outside. Pushing out bad updates ruins your credibility, companies are incentivized not to do so. Updating your computing devices as soon as public updates are made is vital to your own security/safety.
Having met some truly great axe-persons in the C suite over the years I toy with the idea of making it my retirement plan, as in taking ambitious but ingloriously unpopular roles crafting and executing M&A in hard tech. Former MBA profs I've worked with in school do consulting on this for these execs and its fascinating but not sure where I'd cut my teeth outside of seeking mentorship with folks engaging in those and not just regular M&A.

I'm not trying to be the faker tho

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2022) on Monday August 01, 2022 @10:36PM (#32314584)

  Location: Seattle, WA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Hard tech, physical UX & design, financial reporting. Industrial design BFA and MBA in Entrepreneurship. Work in big tech, background consulting for state systems and tiny hardware startups.
Have worked in ID (incl UX/research) and prototyping labs (in resolution from napkin sketch -> napkin model to class A surfaces -> class A model with functional POC), managing teams of aforementioned, current senior hardware PMing the product. I work with NPI/Dev, and cross functional teams responsible for respective designs of modern, complex, upgradeable premium consumer electronics. Résumé/CV: linkedin.com/heyitsmatt Email: [email protected]

Prefer FT remote but in person some % is fine, happy to help the transitions of teams to partial/full remote in hardware, been managing remotely as well as traveling globally for some time.

I like organized, accountable leadership in companies, and would love to be a part of implementing that where my talents can help, prefer working public over private. Board leadership experience in nonprofit as well as founding a few and management thereof, in food equity and job skilling for underserved populations.

I am a bulldog and get shit done :) Love people and enjoy smoothing rough terrain in high performing teams through building up, not tearing down.

This tweet is just linking to an expensive PDF from a lawyer, this is basically an ad
Criminals don't comb records of concealed carry holders to rob them, they do straw purchases or more often just buy guns with serial numbers already removed. Its just Cali gun owners worked up because gun regulation works well for the country.
Re:What happened to the lab-leak hypothesis? on Friday June 24, 2022 @06:00PM (#31869999)
lol jet fuel melt zoonotic origin beams right
Closed source, pass
Re:Bitcoin Is Acting Like Just Another Tech Stock on Thursday May 12, 2022 @09:49AM (#31354137)
The floor for crypto is there it's just a long ride down
Re:Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did on Thursday May 12, 2022 @09:46AM (#31354085)
Nothing is FDIC insured. All your Coinbase assets can vanish and you'll be at the back of the line. Crypto is all speculative especially if you don't hold the keys.
LMAO I was greenlit to attend in.. 2013? 2014? as I worked in public education and got a free chromebook pixel. Neat hardware kinda. Played with google glasses but everything was boring.
Coinbase is gonna get rekt if their earnings and general operations are any indication
Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with rude interviewers? on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @04:23PM (#31345251)
Depends how you want to handle it. If its rude, address it in the moment as you would a rude colleague. If its someone you'd report to, ask the other interviewers if this is to be expected (hint; it will be, but asking cements in these peoples' minds that its effecting hiring). Be loud and honest and mostly don't work there. There's a million places to work right now, but make it known why you won't deal with people's bs, or better yet address it in the moment and let them know its not acceptable. If its just "perceived rude" but fine, then great, you both learned something. If its fine and you just thought wrong, great lesson, you learned you were mistaken.
UFOs by definition aren't real
This is the best outcome but then you don't get "prestigious" schools of the elite. I went to a public university and I'm much better off for it than my MIT peers.
Re:Ask HN: I got into MIT. Should I go? on Monday March 21, 2022 @05:17PM (#30759805)
Go to Z. I had the same thing. I dropped out of an expensive school and just followed my interests, later returning to the school I liked that was nearly free. Zero debt beats any reason. Plus.. MIT students. Shudder.

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