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Job application asked for my SAT scores – Mr. Market

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💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 20 Jun, 2026 Yesterday I was looking at YC jobs to see if there were any interesting small startups hiring in my area (while I otherwise love my current fully-remote job, I'm looking for hybrid). I found one that advertised an opening they called "GTM". I thought that was cool re: no specific scope, just someone who could make their product attractive to buyers however they can. Product seemed good (ETL type of tool). Everything was about what I expected, until the blurb at the…

World Cup 2026: Lionel Messi sets more records for defending champion Argentina

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🚀 Check out this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Even in failure, Messi breaks records.He will get the headlines for his prowess in front of goal, but there have also been some unwanted records.Argentina won a penalty kick after obstructing Lautaro Martinez, but Messi shot the penalty wide of the goal.Messi said: “There was a moment when I felt very angry about the penalty kick, because I missed it and executed it very poorly.” “Fortunately we were able to turn the situation around, take the lead and get the three points.”He became the…

Head of Engineering at Kyber

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🔥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: At Kyber, we're building the next-generation document platform for enterprises. Today, our AI-native solution transforms regulatory document workflows, enabling insurance claims organizations to consolidate 80% of their templates, spend 65% less time drafting, and compress overall communication cycle times by 5x. Our vision is for every enterprise to seamlessly leverage AI templates to generate every document. Over the past 18 months, we’ve: >40x’d revenue and are profitable. Landed multiple six and seven figure, multi-year contracts with leading insurance enterprises. Launched strategic partnerships with industry leading…

The world of artificial intelligence has become “complex”

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✨ Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,TC,agentic ai,boris cherny ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: On Friday, Claude Code creator Boris Cherny appeared at Meta's @Scale conference, and surprisingly the first question from the audience was about loops. The questioner asked: “Are the episodes the next hype cycle, or are they real?” He said Cherney's answer was emphatic: "Yes, it's real." "Two years ago, we wrote source code by hand. We started moving to agents writing the code. Now we're moving to the point where agents are asking agents to write the code next," he continued. “Despite the…

The Walt Disney Company | Acquired

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✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The Walt Disney Company is the most successful enterprise ever created for monetizing human nostalgia. Today it’s the king of global entertainment, holding the intellectual property rights to the childhood memories of billions of people (including, likely, all of you) and is a reliable, predictable profitable business. But it didn’t start that way. During Walt’s era, Disney operated like an unhinged moonshot factory, blowing its finances on one seemingly crazy project after another, like the very first feature-length animated film or a theme park…

AI chipmaker Groq confirms $650 million raise and hiring rehires after $20 billion non-acquisition of Nvidia

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✨ Read this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Hardware,Startups,TC,groq 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: What does an AI company do after a non-acquisition deal, where a competitor pays investors huge intellectual property “licensing” fees while poaching its critical talent? For AI chip maker Groq, the solution appears to be to raise more money from investors — which reportedly made big profits after a deal with Nvidia in December — hire more talent, and pivot. On Monday, Groq announced a new $650 million funding round, confirming previous reports. The raise comes roughly six months after Nvidia signed a non-exclusive licensing…

British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres

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✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: On March 8, 2026, British Columbia moved their clocks to a year-round Pacific Daylight Savings Time. In March, they did the spring forward one hour with their clocks to UTC-7, but they won't fall back to UTC-8 in November. Going forward, the UTC offset for America/Vancouver timezone is permanently UTC-7.Let's use this as an opportunity to talk about date and time zone storage. In the most basic examples, the default is to store the UTC value, then calculate local time relative to UTC. However,…

Tata Electronics, a major technology supplier to Apple and Tesla, confirms a data breach has occurred

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✨ Discover this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,Apple,tata,Tata Electronics,Tesla 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Tata Electronics, an Indian electronics and semiconductor manufacturer and a major supplier to Apple and Tesla, among other tech giants, confirmed a data breach weeks after files allegedly obtained from the company surfaced on a hacker forum. The confirmation comes as a hacker forum listing claims to offer over 630GB of data allegedly stolen from Tata Electronics, comprising over 204,300 files. A review of sample files by TechCrunch found what appear to be Apple supplier specifications and Tesla manufacturing documents. The accuracy, source and…

Finding the Best Dog Treat with Statistics

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🔥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Posted on June 19, 2026 by Adam Wespiser Bebop, my 83lb, 33 inch tall, Greyhound, loves three things: running fast, following me around the house, and treats. Whether it’s a chew treat, pizza out of a child’s hand who strayed too far from a party, or a small tray of cat food, he has a nose for what he likes and the athleticism to give him a fair shot at getting it. I’ve watched him eat for years, so it was upsetting to realize I…

Anthropic says Claude might want to see your ID

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💥 Discover this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Privacy,Security,TC,age verification,Anthropic,Claude,cybersecurity,identity check ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Anthropic may ask Claude users to verify their age and identity by uploading government-issued documents, according to a new version of the company's privacy policy. The AI giant says the move was to allow users to appeal after their accounts were flagged for possible fraudulent activity rather than ban them outright, but it comes as Anthropic seeks to appease the Trump administration amid an ongoing standoff over who has access to the company's AI tools. According to a new section in the latest…