New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: I told people I'm a convicted felon after 20 years of hiding it

Show HN: I told people I'm a convicted felon after 20 years of hiding it
8 by buf | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi there. I was engineer number 3 at Eventbrite and founding engineer at Reforge. I've created a dozen or so startups myself and have worked in many others, like Instacart. All this time, no one knew that I was a convicted felon. It wasn't exactly a topic that came up, but it was certainly something that I never brought up. When you're a convicted felon, people look at you as if you are tainted. I was unable to rent apartments in San Francisco. I was unable to get a job directly after being released from prison. It's funny because when you owe the state $17,000 in restitution and you can't get a job, people become extremely desperate. And that desperation can easily put you right back into prison. So I went from homeless person at age 19 to 7-figures about 10 years later. I retired at age 38. What I'm doing now is writing an autobiography. The main theme of it is hope. And I want to make sure that people know about it. They don't necessarily have to be interested in it, but if people know about what it's like sleeping in a car believing that one day you will travel the world and then actually doing it, then I think I've accomplished my task in writing this book. If you're interested, please let me know.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: RawLink – Building a VPN protocol from scratch

Show HN: RawLink – Building a VPN protocol from scratch
10 by znano | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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New top story on Hacker News: My Neighbor, Me, and a Grand Principle

My Neighbor, Me, and a Grand Principle
13 by royalroad | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Chicago O'Hare digs up 50-ton boulder under airfield, asks public for name ideas

Chicago O'Hare digs up 50-ton boulder under airfield, asks public for name ideas
25 by Stratoscope | 23 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: PalmOS Lemmings by Aaron Ardiri

PalmOS Lemmings by Aaron Ardiri
15 by memalign | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Parin – A 2D game engine between raylib and Godot, written in Dlang

Show HN: Parin – A 2D game engine between raylib and Godot, written in Dlang
6 by Kapendev | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: AB Fab – On Anthony Burgess

AB Fab – On Anthony Burgess
6 by feltsense | 1 comments on Hacker News.