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Show HN: Translating dog behaviors into human language using AI
by reverseCh | 2025-10-19 05:31:26+00:00
Hey HN, I made a tool to help dog owners understand what their pets are trying to communicate.

The problem: Most people can't read dog body language well. A wagging tail doesn't always mean happy, tucked ears can signal many things.

My approach: 1. Rule engine scans for keywords (tail, ears, pacing) → instant interpretation 2. AI layer (Pollinations) adds emotional context and actionable tips 3. Breed-aware filtering since a Chihuahua and Great Dane communicate differently 4. History logging so families stay consistent

Technical bits I'm proud of: - Zero-framework vanilla JS that still feels modern - Smart fallback: AI fails → rules work → offline mode with cached audio - CSP bypass using CF Worker for embedding restricted iframes - localStorage-based i18n without bundling MB of JSON

It's been helpful for 620k+ households. All client-side, free, no tracking beyond Clarity analytics.

Try it: https://dogtranslator.org

Happy to discuss the AI prompting strategy or architecture choices!
by mumber_typhoon | 2025-10-19 05:32:09+00:00
Warning: self harm, su**de.

As someone who's had to do extensive work on myself to survive I can relate to a lot of things said here. I have gone through a lot of material on psychology and spend a lot of time thinking myself when I read or go through the material. This was after 3 years of medication and 20 years of suffering and reaching the point of wanting badly to end my life due to multiple factors growing up.

What I would suggest if you wanted to start working on yourself building healthier relationships with yourself and others:

First is find a suitable therapist. Shop for a therapist like you shop for clothes. Do a session or two and see what you feel. What you need depends on what you are going through. Depression panic anxiety marriage health etc. But don't continue therapy where you don't feel good. There wont be a perfect fit but 'good enough' is someone you can talk to and is compassionate and helps you to do well. They will also assign small homework and that is important. The right therapist will be on your team and slowly nudge you in the right direction (though with your knowledge not sneakily). This builds trust.

Second would be start working on your body. Your body is just as important as your mind. And the two are very interlinked. Yoga, Mindfulness, being more present (ditch your phones and social media accounts), exercise, food, etc. all contribute to your mental wellbeing which will help you create a good relationship with yourself. Once you give the body the love it needs, it will give it back to you.

Third would be to do some reading on mental health and books by psychologists. The thing is you will get lot of insights on your own life reading all that. But be careful too, it might bring up intense memories (like trauma) that can be dangerous. So go slow. Peter Levine, Gabor Mate, Bessel van Der Kolk, Gottman, Richard Shwartz, David Burns, beane Browne etc. Such authors are actively doing work on the cognitive side of things. Some have extreme theories so look for things that apply to you.

I will admit that I was skeptical of the whole 'change your thoughts and things will change' and to some extent I still think that it's not the whole story. But you have to do the self work and your mind is a big part of it. I am very far from building healthy relationships in my life but I think I am having a good relationship with myself lately. I may have gone a few notches down in depression and things have improved.

There is a lot more to share tbh on this but these things are something I did in the last two years that seem to have helped.
by alganet | 2025-10-19 05:32:58+00:00
I'm approaching astrology and horoscope from a more "social role" perspective than a strictly internet-atheist-boy one.

That's why I can put them together. They work together to create an effect in society. Astrology and horoscope belong together and support each other. Doesn't matter if one of them is less random.

The aspects you described (stars, cellestial bodies, energy) directly refer to scientific concepts. Which I find hilarious. It totally didn't started like that.

Look at what you said: light, kinds of energy. It totally is a domesticated strain of an earlier belief that was much different. The very domesticated strain you defend still supports the general idea of things like horoscope (in social dynamics terms), but it has come a long way in becoming more secular.

I would say my first description (a less virulent strain is possible) is spot on.
by hakunin | 2025-10-19 05:33:46+00:00
Here's my preferred approach, with breadcrumbs kept in erb views:

Make this view helper.

def breadcrumb(&) render(layout: 'common/breadcrumb', &) end

Add this partial 'common/_breadcrumb.html.erb' (do whatever html you want):

<li class="breadcrumb-item"> <%= yield %> </li>

Add this to your layout:

<% if content_for?(:breadcrumbs) %> <ol class="breadcrumbs"> <%= yield :breadcrumbs %> </ol> <% else %>

Then this is how you use it in your views:

<% content_for :breadcrumbs do %> <%= breadcrumb { link_to 'Foo', foo_url } %> <%= breadcrumb { link_to 'Bar', bar_url } %> <%= breadcrumb { 'you are here' } %> <% end %>

For minitest tests I add this helper:

module AssertBreadcrumbs Crumb = Struct.new(:text, :href) # Note: the block must have 1 argument per breadcrumb. It asserts their count. def assert_breadcrumbs(&blk) assert_select '.breadcrumb-item', blk.parameters.size do |items| structs = items.map { |item| if (link = item.css('a')[0]) Crumb.new(link.text, link['href']) else Crumb.new(item.text.strip) end } yield(*structs) end end end

Which you can use in tests like this:

assert_breadcrumbs do |item1, item2, item3| assert_equal 'Foo', item1.text assert_equal foo_url, item1.href assert_equal 'Bar', item2.text assert_equal bar_url, item2.href assert_equal 'you are here', item3.text assert_nil item3.href end
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-10-19 05:34:12+00:00
Knowing yourself to know, and forgive / accept, who and what you are.

Allows you to appreciate the perceptiveness of others when they're correct.

Also, if you do not know yourself (and especially if you cannot forgive yourself) you're going to struggle to deal with your own children.

My kids reflect me back at myself in what were frustrating ways, until I realised it was me and my influence, and it became massively endearing.

Although I may be too forgiving of myself (but in amongst that I do still have 'the voices of discontent' but the longer I live the more their sentiment is proven wrong).
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-19 05:35:55+00:00
On the core of the piece

> It is commonly, and truly, said that you can only love someone as well as you love yourself.

> I’ve worked with patients [...]

I wish it was clear from the start that they're looking at it through a pathological lens. The advice is worded as some generic fortune cookie wisdom, and I personally think that's a pretty big leap.

In general people should care about themselves and understand their impact on others. But that doesn't need to be "love", and the author seems aware of it, as the nitty gritty parts he describes are more varied than some single umbrella approach.

The "love yourself" meme has been used and abused for so long, I personally found it grating and inadequate for the people we wish to actually help. I'd wish we retire it.
by colechristensen | 2025-10-19 05:40:08+00:00
A touch of alcohol turns the overthinking volume down which often leads to more productivity and better code. A not so uncommon ADHD experience. In university of course also sometimes I would do my programming drunk and the result would regularly be that it worked but the solutions would be very odd.

Standard ADHD meds often lead to playing Factorio for 17 hours in a row and forgetting to eat.
by mook | 2025-10-19 05:40:27+00:00
The camera was an off the shelf part (from a very specialty shelf I suppose). It had an SD card built in because some people might not have a thing to stream to; it's probably good for demos and cheap enough to be good for a bullet point. Given the rest of the components inside they probably had enough margin that they weren't optimizing for costs. The value add was in the pressure vessel, and that seems to have mostly worked.
by vasco | 2025-10-19 05:40:39+00:00
Having spent many years very close to people with shit childhoods that deal with depression and other issues, I'd say one of the biggest hurdles was indeed being able to create a positive self image of themselves.

There's some people that think "they are depressive" the same way some people think "they have a penchant for being late to things". All these negative self images just perpetuate behaviors and trains of thought that go nowhere positive.

There's a lot of regular people that hear that and think that's justification to being narcissistic selfish assholes, but that's like all advice, you should first see if it applies to you.
by ezst | 2025-10-19 05:42:02+00:00
> 2005 is pre iPhone

I hate how incompetent tech writing and marketing rewrote and simplified mobile phone history into pre/post-iphone. Yes, we did have touchscreens, smartphones and camera-enabled devices many years before the iPhone. Arguably, on several metrics, many Symbian/Linux/blackberry phones of that era are better smartphones than today's iPhone/Androids as defined by hardware capabilities which got removed over time while arbitrary constraints got added on the software front.
by cpeterso | 2025-10-19 05:42:58+00:00
There are expensive apps and devices to create notched music or white noise. Fortunately, there are also free YouTube videos with noise notched for different frequencies. Identify your tinnitus frequency using one of the web-based tone generator tests, then find and bookmark the video notched for your frequency.

I like “tinnitusreliever610”. TBH, I haven’t found the notched noise to be any more relief than full spectrum white or pink noise.

https://youtube.com/@tinnitusreliever610
by AstroBen | 2025-10-19 05:44:49+00:00
Well if they think AGI is soon with no evidence then that's not worth a whole lot

If they think AGI is soon AND they can back it up, why can't they convince investors and have them make up the difference for the next 2-3 years? Seems like a much better strategy than the pornbots and a weaker position with regulators

I mean if anything this makes it seem like they're not confident they'll get to AGI that soon.. they're not optimizing for that eventual outcome
by sangeeth96 | 2025-10-19 05:46:40+00:00
I don't think this failed because of the bump, which exists on almost every phone. I really, _really_ wanted to go for the Air but even I couldn't bring myself to do it. My theory is that it largely falls down to the following missing things for most people including myself:

1. An ultrawide camera 2. Dual speakers 3. Better battery

Even though battery-wise, it's impressive for the size, every other review puts it at plumb last which is concerning for any prospect buyer. It's a shame Apple didn't use the Air to experiment with some denser battery tech.

I do hope Apple doesn't give up on the Air after this but it needs work before serious buyers consider it over the Pro models.
by eviks | 2025-10-19 05:47:18+00:00
> If one way works properly and doesn't have obvious downsides, stick with having one way. If it has obvious downsides, stick with having a different one way.

What if you're in the real world with tradeoffs? So you have both obvious downsides and obvious upsides mixed in each option, and what's more important, those depend on the user, not you, so you can't pick one best option?

That's the reason you give options, and you don't need to learn different ways, learn one you like better or just flip a coin
by joshtbradley | 2025-10-19 05:52:47+00:00
Balaji's book "The Network State" doesn't refute Charlie's arguments directly but it does a great job of constructing an optimistic vision for the future. The techno-optimists definitionally don't have a doom-and-gloom view of the future, and I find their perspective useful for rounding out my own.

Nobody has all the answers. Humanity is profoundly and hilariously bad at predicting the future, and every generation has both doomsayers and prophets. Rather than getting caught in the emotional swings of siding with one or the other, I personally have focused on becoming as informed as possible so that I can make my own decisions.
by gsf_emergency_4 | 2025-10-19 05:53:12+00:00
The path from Lee-Yang to Yang-Mills is short (~months) but the shortness is instructive

(It's more than just a lesson in style, imho. Lee-Yang could become more famous than Yang-Mills, in time! Like you're implying there-- that was a honest mistake on your part; your claim to "idiocy" teaches less than it might seem :).

See this comment which might seem completely throwaway https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45632370)

In the same vein, here is a short-note of Yang, readable to nonscientists, here:

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217751X03017142

(He rebuts Dyson)

Necessary Subtlety and Unnecessary Subtlety
by seba_dos1 | 2025-10-19 05:53:33+00:00
Modern cities tend to have means for effective transport called public transit. I have lived in two big city centers and now live in one of their suburbs and I have never felt the need to own a car, even though I do have a driving license. Moving around is as easy as hopping onto a tram, metro, train or bus. In special cases there's always a possibility to call a ride.

It's still more car-centric than it should be here - it's absurd how much space we waste on all these parked cars around - but fortunately it's been improving over time.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-10-19 05:56:56+00:00
Remember when they promised us they were gonna go after the criminals.

Well, this is what they meant. A drug charge from the 80s on someone who was falsely convicted and imprisoned for 40 years.

In the meanwhile, actual criminals, like George Santos, and the Jan 6 traitors are having their sentences commuted.

Incredible.
by QuiEgo | 2025-10-19 05:57:26+00:00
Sure, I think we’re essentially looking at the same thing from different angles. They are saying the changes in the C standard are minor enough that forcing people to upgrade isn’t worth the costs, such as losing compatibility with old toolchains for niche platforms. So they stay on an old C version.

It would be amazing if Rust was as the point where people were ready to have conversations like that.

New versions of Rust add so many handy, useful features the cost of staying on old Rust versions is very high right now. Or put differently, the ROI of picking up new versions of Rust is very very VERY good. So most packages do.

Going back to the bigger picture issue though: it’s very common in embedded to lock your toolchain and very rarely change it. This is very desirable to drive down risk and testing burden. It would be sweet if this was more easy to do in Rust. If I need to take an update to a dependency to pick up a bug fix, as it stands today, there’s a good chance these days that I’m going to hit something in the chain that bumped MSRV and will force me to update.

In real-world embedded projects using Rust, you end up with painful options: - chase MSRV of deps and keep on new Rust. Adds risk and testing burden. - minimize deps and reimplement everything yourself. Adds lots of cost. - use C and incur all of the memory safety risks, and assorted foot guns

In the end, Rust still feels worth it, but it’d be super nice to not have to make that trade.
by freetime2 | 2025-10-19 05:59:22+00:00
I have very little desire to read a novel centered around drinking or drug use in 2025. That subject has been covered pretty extensively - and the writers who explored it have mostly either found moderation in their later years or paid a significant price.

A lot of us are drinking less, but I’m not sure we’ve really come up with a suitable replacement yet - socially speaking. I would be more interested to explore that.

Edit: To be clear, some of my favorite writers were very heavy into drugs and alcohol: Kerouac, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, etc. I’m not criticizing their work - which again are some of my personal favorites - but if you read their biographies they often don’t end well. My thinking is what would these novels look like if written in 2025 and not set against the backdrop of substance abuse.
by asim | 2025-10-19 06:01:20+00:00
--- We all know about Twitter acquirer Elon Musk, who bent the platform to fit his political worldview. But he’s not alone.

Here’s Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, owner of LinkedIn, who contributed a million dollars to Trump’s inauguration fund.

Here’s Mark Zuckerberg, who owns Threads, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, who said that he feels optimistic about the new administration’s agenda.

And here’s Larry Ellison, who will control TikTok in the US, who was a major investor in Trump, and who one advisor called, in a WIRED interview, the shadow President of the United States.

Social media is very quickly becoming aligned with a state that in itself is becoming increasingly authoritarian. ---

This was the real why. When control amasses to the few we end up in a place where there is a dissonance between what we perceive to be true and what is actually true. The voice of the dictator will say one thing but the people's lived experience will say something else. I don't think mastodon or Bluesky or even Jack Dorsey's new project Bitchat solves any of this. It goes much deeper. It is ideological. It is values driven. The outcome is ultimately decided by the motives of the people who start it or run it. I just don't think any western driven values can be the basis of a new platform because a large majority of the world are not from the west. For better or worse, you have the platforms of the west. They are US centric and they will dominate. Anything grassroots and fundamentally opposed to that will not come from the west. It must come authentically from those who need it.
by lIl-IIIl | 2025-10-19 06:02:37+00:00
There's an incorrect claim in the article (possibly a typo, but a big one):

"China set goals for reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2030 in 2019 and met their 2030 goal in 2024, so fast is their transition going."

There's no citation, but an internet search says that the 2030 goal is peak carbon emissions.

The goal for net-zero is 2060.
by roncesvalles | 2025-10-19 06:02:43+00:00
I feel like all the truly transformative growth, those periods when you sprint from a nobody to the cutting edge, or start from a blank sheet and build a work of genius the likes that humanity has never seen, the manic energy that drives this, it always comes from hate. A hate for the self (wanting to prove something to yourself) or a hate for others (wanting to prove something to others), (which may really be the same thing; you're trying to invalidate your self-criticism and the perceived criticism of others by proving that you're better at something than most anyone else in the world). Mentally healthy people become mailmen.
by stephen_g | 2025-10-19 06:03:10+00:00
What I want to know is how they guess which 0.001% of signals or internet traffic is actually worthwhile to keep? The biggest nation states could conceivably store about 1 year’s worth of internet traffic right now, but then they also need to store whatever other signals intelligence they’re gathering for analysis, so it will be less than a single years worth.

But almost all that data is going to turn out to be useless if or when they gain quantum ability to decrypt it, and even the stuff that could be useful now gets less useful with every month it stays encrypted. Stuff that is very useful intelligence now could be absolutely useless in five years…
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-19 06:05:22+00:00
> you cannot sell what you don't have.

Except you can, you can be a middle layer. I'm not just nitpicking on the analogy failing at the first degree, you can love someone much more than you love yourself, and the nature of what you bring to them doesn't need to be how you deal with yourself.

People raising kids in particular are supporting a level of self abuse that flies in the face of the analogy. They also understand that they need to take care of themselves, physically and mentally, to even be there to help their kid when needed. But asking them to treat themselves like they treat their kid just doesn't work in any practical way.
by seec | 2025-10-19 06:06:03+00:00
Apple is extremely dumb with power management and power supply. That's because they pretended to innovate all the way back at the start and want to pretend, they still have the expertise.

But I have had 2 iMac power supply die one me, the grounding problem on a MBP and a major annoyance with power noise leaking from a Mac Mini (makes for some nasty audio output, hilarious when you consider they supposedly target creative who clearly need good audio output).

You always find people raving about Apple's engineering prowess but my experience is that it's mostly a smoke show, they make things look good, miniaturise/oversimplify beyond what is reasonable and you often end up with major hardware flaws that are just a pain to deal with.

They always managed to have good performance and a premium feeling package but I don't think their engineering tradeoffs are actually very good most of the time.

As far as I can tell, the new Mac Mini design still has grounding issues, and you will get humming issues, which is beyond stupid for a product of that caliber. At this point I don't care about having the power supply inside the dam box, just use a brick if you must to prevent that sort of problem. This is particularly infuriating since they made the iMac PSU external, which is beyond stupid for an AiO.

But common sense left Apple a long time ago and now they just chase specs benchmarks and fashionnable UIs above everything.
by tom89999 | 2025-10-19 06:07:03+00:00
>>Once hooked on heroin you need more heroin

No, you need your daily dosage you are used to. I was an addict for a short time and then went to rehab and never did it since 10 years. And yes, like you said, the demand is there. Every day and must be satisfied. Over here in europe, we have substitution clinics and doctors where you are given polamidon or subutex(dont know whats its called somewhere else) to get you from the streets and injecting doubtable mixtures and catch hepatitis and aids. But not all people qualify for that, so they still have to go to the streets. As an addict myself, i can say, it was dire living conditions, unemployment, the wrong friends and some more factors. Sure it was fun the first times, i used to consume alcohol, which is especially totally legal in bavaria(Oktoberfest) i use to live. Then, the streets are washed with drugs, people making a huge amount of money from it and replacing a decent job and income with drug dealing. But, there is help. I undergone rehab, now living a good life, can afford an exlusive hobby and got married. People that will use drugs are born every second on this earth ball. Times are changing, not every time for the better. We have crisis, wars and other shit while an elite group of people getting richer the same second every day and celebrating their success with cocaine that makes you think you were given the nobel prize at the same time you won the lottery. Especially coke is the drug of the wealthy and successful people, thats why the demand is high and everyone wants his bit of the cake....
by kijin | 2025-10-19 06:08:48+00:00
> They already do stuff like this.

Who?

I can't think of a single case other than Ryanair 4978, a plane that was carrying a Belarusian opposition activist over Belarusian airspace. Not saying this was justified in any way, but even Belarus didn't dare to touch any foreign passengers.

If you're aware of any actual case of a first-world airliner from country A being forced to land in country B to have a citizen of country C arrested, please provide links.