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Uber lays off 435 people (techcrunch.com)

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It's later than you think (www.linkedin.com)

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California Passes Landmark Bill to Remake Gig Economy (www.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D (3dforreddit.com)

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Bring Back the SE (avc.com)

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iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max (www.apple.com)

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Stripe Corporate Card (stripe.com)

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I Quit Social Media for a Year and Nothing Magical Happened (joshcsimmons.com)

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Hackers Hit Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a ‘SIM Swap.’ You’re at Risk, Too (www.nytimes.com)

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Stop Infinite Scrolling on Your Website – Now (hackernoon.com)

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An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms (www.jezzamon.com)

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Apple Watch Series 5 (www.apple.com)

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Why Ada Is the Language You Want to Be Programming Your Systems With (hackaday.com)

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Firefox’s Test Pilot Program Returns with Firefox Private Network Beta (blog.mozilla.org)

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How UK security services neutralised the Guardian newspaper (www.dailymaverick.co.za)

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Clubhouse announces new collaboration tool, free project management platform (techcrunch.com)

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Metronomes in JavaScript (meowni.ca)

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The Plot to Assassinate Orwell (lithub.com)

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The U.S. Forgot What Antitrust Is For (www.theatlantic.com)

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WeWork Bonds Drop Below Par for First Time Since IPO Filing (www.bloomberg.com)

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Show HN: Search Engine on the Top of Twitter to Find Jobs (tweetjobs.dev)

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California Labor Bill, Near Passage, Is Blow to Uber and Lyft (www.nytimes.com)

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Frustrations with React Hooks (blog.logrocket.com)

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Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035: Study (www.bloomberg.com)

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Margrethe Vestager stays on as EU competition head in blow for tech giants (www.cityam.com)

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Show HN: The Whole Code Catalog (futureofcoding.org)

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Are black holes made of dark energy? (phys.org)

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Xinjiang University President Tashpolat Tiyip Sentenced to Death in Secret Trial (u.osu.edu)

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NSA Official: We Need to Prepare for the Future of War (www.nytimes.com)

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How to repair the parts that explode in Lenovo yoga laptops (adammunich.com)

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Drought Has Revealed Spain's Long-Submerged 'Stonehenge' (www.atlasobscura.com)

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Plasma Antenna (en.wikipedia.org)

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Americans' fear of losing their jobs grows (www.axios.com)

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Google and Mayo Clinic will transform the future of healthcare (cloud.google.com)

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The Riemann Hypothesis (Part 2) (golem.ph.utexas.edu)

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Apple just unveiled the new seventh-gen iPad (bgr.com)

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Socrates Was Against Writing (apt46.net)

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On Extractive and Abstractive Summarization with Transformer Language Models (arxiv.org)

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Electric version of Renault's low-cost Kwid (www.thedrive.com)

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Natural Language in Python Using SpaCy: An Introduction (blog.dominodatalab.com)

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Michael Bloomberg launches $160M initiative to ban flavored e-cigarettes (www.axios.com)

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Where Quantum Probability Comes From (www.quantamagazine.org)

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Ask HN: How do you keep your programming motivation up? (item?id=20930439)

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Secret Service Investigates Breach at U.S. Govt IT Contractor (krebsonsecurity.com)

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San Diego Cell Service Possibly Affected by New Operator in Mexico (www.nbcsandiego.com)

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E.U.’S New Digital Czar: ‘Most Powerful Regulator of Big Tech on the Planet’ (www.nytimes.com)

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A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked (www.theatlantic.com)

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Kuma – Open-source control plane for your Service Mesh (https://kuma.io)

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Can genetics explain why some people thrive on less sleep? (www.nytimes.com)

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Photographer Robert Frank has died (www.nytimes.com)

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Terror Watch List Finally Reined In (www.bloomberg.com)

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Sex lives of app users 'shared with Facebook' (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Myanmar Prepares to Migrate from Zawgyi to Unicode (globalvoices.org)

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Leadership Transition Announced for MIT Media Lab (news.mit.edu)

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Epstein Was a Known Sex Offender. Bezos, Musk and Brin Dined with Him Anyway (www.buzzfeednews.com)

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Evolving “nofollow” – new ways to identify the nature of links (webmasters.googleblog.com)

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Free-to-Play Games: Three Key Trade-Offs (thezvi.wordpress.com)

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Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences (www.skynettoday.com)

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Runaway Story or Meltdown in Motion? The Unraveling of the WeWork IPO (aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com)

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Calcium could replace lithium in batteries that store solar and wind power (www.nature.com)

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Face recognition, bad people and bad data (www.ben-evans.com)

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Bloomberg’s new interactive American Mall game (2018) (medium.com)

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Django 3.0 alpha 1 released (www.djangoproject.com)

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Why do we use word embeddings in NLP? (medium.com)

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Bypass 2FA with DTMF Tones as a Service (dontduo.com)

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Khashoggi children have received houses in Saudi Arabia and monthly payments (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Human Rights Implications of IBM Watson’s ‘Personality Insights’ Tool (medium.com)

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Show HN: Announcing the FaunaDB Add-On for Netlify (www.netlify.com)

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Backpack X-Ray Machine (2016) (adammunich.com)

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From Python to Silicon – Design Hardware with Python (www.myhdl.org)

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The Volfefe Index (en.wikipedia.org)

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OpenVPN vs. WireGuard – A Short Comparison (ungleich.ch)

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Why Are America’s Three Biggest Metros Shrinking? (www.theatlantic.com)

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What College Admissions Want (www.nytimes.com)

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The open society, Canada’s best response to immigration (vancouversun.com)

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How Safari and iMessage Have Made iPhones Less Secure (www.wired.com)

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Great Noir Lives and Dies On Dialogue (crimereads.com)

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Kuma, a new universal service mesh (kuma.io)

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SMT-COP: Defeating Side-Channel Attacks on Execution Units in SMT Processors (www.cs.binghamton.edu)

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The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes, 1919 (marshlib.blogspot.com)

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Common REST API mistakes and how to avoid them (blog.logrocket.com)

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California senate passes AB5 gig-work bill, turning contractors into employees (www.sfchronicle.com)

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Private Internet Access VPN has been blocked in Hong Kong (www.privateinternetaccess.com)

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Expert predicts 25% of colleges will fail in the next 20 years (www.cbsnews.com)

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Weakness in Intel chips lets researchers steal encrypted SSH keystrokes (arstechnica.com)

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Gimp Forked over “Offensive Name” (itsfoss.com)

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(Un)Informed Consent: Studying GDPR Consent Notices in the Field [pdf] (www.syssec.ruhr-uni-bochum.de)

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Apple TV+ wil launch in November for $4.99/month (finance.yahoo.com)

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Objects that can change colors like a chameleon (techxplore.com)

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Uniting Flutter on web and mobile, and introducing Flutter 1.9 (developers.googleblog.com)

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Formality, a (proof)gramming language featuring optimal reductions (github.com)

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Mathematical Treasure: James A. Garfield's Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem (www.maa.org)

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Apple Dominates App Store Search Results, Thwarting Competitors (www.wsj.com)

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Want to Do Business in Silicon Valley? Better Act Nice (www.nytimes.com)

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Lecture Notes: Optimization for Machine Learning (arxiv.org)

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Hong Kong can be a gateway to liberal values for China (www.economist.com)

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I Lost My $50k Twitter Username (medium.com)

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China’s middle-class growing increasingly anxious as prices rise and yuan drops (www.scmp.com)

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Seven Steps to an Effective One on One Management (www.happierco.com)

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Did a Brooklyn Home’s Tunnel Provide Passage to Escaped Slaves? (www.citylab.com)

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Automatic Emergency Braking: A Case Study Using Comma.ai Dataset (medium.com)

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Intel server-grade CPUs impacted by new NetCAT attack (www.zdnet.com)

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Ask HN: When will text-to-speech replace narrators (item?id=20931541)

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Epstein donations were made with knowledge of MIT central administration (www.bostonglobe.com)

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Boris Johnson Secretly Asked for an Amount of User Data to Be Tracked (www.buzzfeed.com)

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Experimenting with same-provider DNS-over-HTTPS upgrade (blog.chromium.org)

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iPhone 11 Pro announced with a triple-camera system (www.theverge.com)

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Ask HN: How you left your job and survive your own? (item?id=20926684)

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The First Windmills (delanceyplace.com)

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Scottish judges rule Parliament suspension is unlawful (www.bbc.com)

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NetCAT: Practical Cache Attacks from the Network (www.vusec.net)

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Apple introduces the new $699 iPhone 11–and it’s all about the cameras (arstechnica.com)

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Scientists Find the Pitter Patter of Neanderthal Feet (www.wsj.com)

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WhatsApp permanently bans participants of group chats with “illegal” names (translate.google.com)

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C++20 Concepts Are Here in Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.3 (devblogs.microsoft.com)

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Intel chipset exploited to sniff SSH passwords as they're typed over the network (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Cashier arrested for using photographic memory to steal 1300 credit cards' info (www.cnn.com)

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The Truth About Electric Eels Has Long Been Overlooked (www.theatlantic.com)

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Man spends £30k fighting £100 speeding fine (www.bbc.co.uk)

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‘Why Won’t Microsoft Spy for the US?’ – Trump Adviser (www.geekwire.com)

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Confused by Git? Here's a Git crash course to fix that (dev.to)

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Can you use a Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop machine? (hackaday.com)

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iOS 13 contains instructions for Apple employees to run apps for Apple's headset (twitter.com)

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Experience Is Overrated: Conditions for Intuitive Expertise [pdf] (www.fs.fed.us)

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Ask HN: How do you monetize a side-project? (item?id=20929930)

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/r/SubSimulatorGPT2 – posts and comments are generated by GPT-2 (old.reddit.com)

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Pretrained AI Models: Performativity, Mobility, and Change (arxiv.org)

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Ask HN: Are you in the Albuquerque tech scene? (item?id=20934652)

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'Can I Use' for Email (https://www.caniemail.com)

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The Truth About Electric Eels Has Long Been Overlooked (www.theatlantic.com)

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The Most Common Security Mistakes React Devs Make (medium.com)

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Apple reveals iPhone 11 with a dual-camera system and new color options (www.theverge.com)

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Wisconsinite caught making thousands of counterfeit THC vape cartridges a day (www.jsonline.com)

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When a Human Liver Is Supercooled to -4 C (www.theatlantic.com)

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The Isleworth Mona Lisa (www.cnn.com)

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In Bill Gates’s Mind, a Life of Processing (www.wsj.com)

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How I made a custom MIDI controller (www.youtube.com)

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Light Takes the Multi-Camera Trend to the Extreme with a Nine-Lens Camera Phone (www.gizmodo.co.uk)

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Fra Angelico and the revolution in painting (www.the-tls.co.uk)

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Will Germany's car industry survive? – DW Documentary [video] (www.youtube.com)

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California Passes Landmark Bill to Remake Gig Economy (www.nytimes.com)

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The 9/11 Tribute Lights Are Endangering 160k Birds a Year (www.nytimes.com)

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Tremendous is hiring and donating $500 to charity for each final round interview (jobs.tremendous.com)

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DemandSphere (YC S10) Is Hiring Systems Engineers / Admins – Columbus, Oh or Tokyo (demandsphere.breezy.hr)

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AllPatient is hiring product engineers to bring world-class healthcare to all (angel.co)

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