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Taste is tech billionaires' new obsession (why?) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjVmtxKXMbM
2•the_wolo•48m ago

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the_wolo•48m ago
> Why is Silicon Valley suddenly obsessed with “taste”? As AI generates endless content, tech elites like Greg Brockman claim the most valuable human skill is no longer creating, but selecting what matters. This video explores how “taste” became a new form of power: a way for AI executives and tech workers to differentiate themselves in a world flooded with algorithmic slop

I always find Alice Capella's essays really insightful and this topic has bothered me on hn for a while.

OT Manual Operations Plan: What Manual Operation Buys You

https://www.emberot.com/resources/blog/ot-manual-operations-plan/
1•TheWiggles•2m ago•0 comments

Migraine Trail: Voice Migraine Tracker

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1•zrmachar•4m ago•0 comments

Claude Fable 5 Having Fun

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2•logicallee•6m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A prompt to check Supabase DB security

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1•tornadorice•8m ago•0 comments

Where the Shadow Fell

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1•davidbarker•9m ago•0 comments

France's Top Court Strikes Down Ban on Social Media for Children

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/world/europe/france-court-strikes-down-ban-social-media-childr...
2•timpera•17m ago•1 comments

We got content-defined chunking from 555 MB/s to 21 GB/s

https://www.plakar.io/posts/2025-07-11/introducing-go-cdc-chunkers-chunk-and-deduplicate-everything/
1•vcoisne•18m ago•0 comments

Digital Signal Processing Pioneer Bede Liu Dies at 91

https://spectrum.ieee.org/digital-signal-processing
2•sohkamyung•19m ago•0 comments

Stop sending me PRs; a rant

https://getsmall.xyz/post/cmstjfl9l000if70ljmpzr4va
4•trezm•19m ago•1 comments

Musk assembled a full-stack AI coding play while everyone watched benchmarks

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2•glennall•23m ago•1 comments

Substack forces authors to use Pangram

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2•behnamoh•24m ago•0 comments

1973 Concorde Eclipse Flight

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Show HN: Another Markdown editor, but this one is a web app

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1•evilmarty•26m ago•0 comments

RISC-V: They should have known better

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8•kaycebasques•29m ago•0 comments

Two slicks appear in Gulf as oil spill off Oman threatens disaster

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1•Jtsummers•29m ago•0 comments

IDE Nostalgia: Programming NLS in 1972: Keyset, Mouse, and Viewspecs

https://davidsmaynard.com/blog/keyset
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Show HN: Musical social media site where you can throw tomatoes at each other

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Development awarded persistency and it still does today

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A TanStack Router Navigation

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1•mirzap•43m ago•0 comments

Taste is tech billionaires' new obsession (why?) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjVmtxKXMbM
2•the_wolo•48m ago•1 comments

US to tell partners they must pick sides in AI race with China

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3•sanid•49m ago•0 comments

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1•nadermx•50m ago•0 comments

eigendrum

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4•bookofjoe•52m ago•0 comments

Taiwan targeted in AI-driven hacking campaign

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1•skybrian•58m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a Claude Code plugin to query 10.6M earnings-call embeddings

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Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation

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3•sbulaev•1h ago•0 comments

The flags given letter grades

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2•carlos-menezes•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I asked Claude to turn 20 years of my research into a game

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Show HN: WeaveScope – Elixir native observability for AI agents

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Randomness Is a Tax – Until It Isn't

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1•sidhantbansal•1h ago•0 comments