Hacker News: ironmagma

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

ironmagma — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:07:39 +0000

Location: Seattle, WA / Portland, OR Remote: No Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Typescript, Golang, Python (Django/Flask), C#, React, C (certification in C) Résumé/CV: https://philippeterson.com/resume Email: peterson@sent.com

Savvy ex-YC startup Software Engineer, great at taking a project from 0 to 1 and 1 to 10. My background was initially in React and the frontend world, but I've since transitioned to being a more Go/backend-heavy developer working on high-throughput systems. Clocking in at 9 years of experience, I have worked the full gamut, from early stage startups to Fortune 500 companies — and would love to join a team focused on building a great product for the user. You might want to hire me if you have a need for someone who has both business/finance intuition and also software skills.

New comment by ironmagma in "Ask HN: Is it just me or are most businesses insane?"

ironmagma — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 07:30:53 +0000

And notably, totally interchangeable cogs is exactly what a startup should not want. For the reason that it requires a lot of slack. Startups are supposed to move fast, and if you move fast that means there should be minimal overlap in work between different employees. Layoffs could be fatal at that stage in a company's story.

New comment by ironmagma in "Fighting back against biometric surveillance at Wegmans"

ironmagma — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 11:51:12 +0000

Well you could stand outside and hand out N95 masks to spread awareness. That isn’t doing nothing to fix the issue.

New comment by ironmagma in "Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave"

ironmagma — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:52:00 +0000

Happy to try my hand at a management position. Are you saying you have one open?

New comment by ironmagma in "Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave"

ironmagma — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 08:56:23 +0000

HN is known for its optimism and abundance mindset. Aside from that, being group actions, reform hinges on mobilizing those who are able to do so to help those who are not. The phrase “solidarity” comes to mind, and that was the whole point. We need a solidarity mindset, not a sarcastic “good luck with that” mindset.

New comment by ironmagma in "Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave"

ironmagma — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 02:41:14 +0000

First step is going to be for you to admit you’re actively stopping it.

New comment by ironmagma in "Toll roads are spreading in America"

ironmagma — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 02:23:17 +0000

If the goal is to reduce traffic you can use a highway ramp signal instead.

New comment by ironmagma in "Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave"

ironmagma — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 02:18:52 +0000

Continually acknowledging it renews its legitimacy as the status quo. Who said anything about families or mortgages? The tech industry has plenty of single mobile renters; we can make change by having a little faith in each other.

New comment by ironmagma in "Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave"

ironmagma — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 01:34:58 +0000

It's expected because of a large swath of defeatist citizens making comments like this. If we don't make this normal, it won't be normal.

New comment by ironmagma in "Airlines call in psychologists to stop passengers risking their lives for bags"

ironmagma — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 01:32:26 +0000

If dying doesn't stop them, fear of punishment by law won't either. That's if they even know about the law.

New comment by ironmagma in "Airlines call in psychologists to stop passengers risking their lives for bags"

ironmagma — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 01:31:40 +0000

Also, in Japan do you sometimes have trouble getting a social security card and/or birth certificate to the point of being completely unable to do so the way you do here?

New comment by ironmagma in "Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025"

ironmagma — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 01:17:59 +0000

Were there any books that mentioned Hacker News?

New comment by ironmagma in "GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst"

ironmagma — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 19:53:55 +0000

I still think people should want things and be vocal about what they want. This is the natural way for people to know what needs to be built. It is different from demanding something.

And besides that, a lot of people on here do pay for Github in the first place.

New comment by ironmagma in "GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst"

ironmagma — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:01:24 +0000

Is not the whole FOSS movement about receiving something you did not pay for? Going as far as to say that’s even what users deserve?

New comment by ironmagma in "GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst"

ironmagma — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:14:53 +0000

No, that's actually the same issue. "Entitled to tell them what to do without contributing" is not a problem. Let them tell whoever what to do, the response is always the same: "patches welcome," or if that isn't even true (which it doesn't have to be), "feel free to fork."

New comment by ironmagma in "GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst"

ironmagma — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:44:20 +0000

There is a massive problem in open source where some people equate pointing out a problem with being too lazy to solve it — when in reality this just stifles the conversation. Especially when a prerequisite to any group project accomplishing anything is to first discuss the problem to be solved.

New comment by ironmagma in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

ironmagma — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:36:45 +0000

It reminds me of hearing that music majors often do well in medical school. Want to go to medical school? Just major in music, duh.

New comment by ironmagma in "I hate science (2021)"

ironmagma — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:00:18 +0000

We can modify the human genome now, how is that not an order of magnitude more impressive?

New comment by ironmagma in "I hate science (2021)"

ironmagma — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 03:55:51 +0000

I should have specified for pedants that I meant the system of peer review and scientific inquiry.

New comment by ironmagma in "I hate science (2021)"

ironmagma — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 02:40:53 +0000

Science is amazing because it sucks and yet it's somehow still better than anything else we came up with for thousands of years.