Hacker News with Generative AI: Cats

Why Are Cats Such a Medical Black Box? (nytimes.com)
When my husband and I took our cat to the vet early last year, we were hoping to hear that we had nothing to worry about.

Cats, Veterinary Medicine, Health, Pets

11 points by mooreds 18 days ago | 1 comments

Study: Cats in little crocheted hats shed light on feline chronic pain (arstechnica.com)
Our feline overlords aren't particularly known for obeying commands from mere humans, which can make it difficult to study their behaviors in controlled laboratory settings. So a certain degree of ingenuity is required to get usable results—like crocheting adorable little hats for kitties taking part in electroencephalogram (EEG) experiments.

Science, Animals, Research, Cats, Health

63 points by tomwiddles 186 days ago | 8 comments

Cat memes went viral 100 years ago (bbc.com)
In the age of social media, we're living through a communications revolution. But this isn't the first one, nor is it the first time cats have been at the centre of social change.

Social Media, History, Cats, Internet Culture

143 points by zdw 189 days ago | 37 comments

Gottfried Mind, the Raphael of Cats (publicdomainreview.org)
Labelled a “cretin” and “imbecile” in his lifetime, the Swiss artist Gottfried Mind had profound talents when it came to drafting the feline form.

Art, Cats, History, Biography

57 points by prismatic 204 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: I am using AI to measure how well cats sit like bread (rateloaf.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Cats, Creative Projects

96 points by jimhi 245 days ago | 18 comments

The man who reinvented the cat (newyorker.com)

Pets, Cats, Animals, Journalism, Writing

45 points by fortran77 300 days ago | 15 comments

Cat as a Service (cataas.com)

Cats, APIs, Web Services

82 points by kaycebasques 304 days ago | 70 comments

Sir, there's a cat in your mirror dimension (lcamtuf.substack.com)