I designed a nose guard for my dog and gave it away. Now 500 dogs wear one

74•ragswag•48m ago

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silverFork•42m ago

DLE, I had never heard of it. Something like lupus and it needs protection from the sun. One smart guy to come up with a simple solution.. Very good use of 3D printer.

superxpro12•35m ago

I love writing that uses acronyms and never defines them.

IncreasePosts•23m ago

Sounds like someone just needs to spend more time keeping up with rare canine autoimmune disorders

phoghed•22m ago

It’s pretty easy to figure out what DLE was about from the context clues in the article. Knowing that it means discoid lupus erythematosus and the detailed definition wouldn’t have added much imo. In fact I didn’t even care to look it up until I read your comment.

tdeck•35m ago

> I want to be honest about what happened next, because it matters

I like the project but using Claude sure didn't improve this article.

tverbeure•33m ago

"The free Shield, rebuilt"

antonvs•22m ago

“That somebody opens it, and what they open matters.”

browningstreet•22m ago

Are y'all gonna register a complaint for each and every instance of an LLM written or enhanced article anywhere?

It's mainstreamed. Spare the rest of us.

andrewstuart•18m ago

It’s the lack of effort to make the AI write better that bothers me.

tdeck•16m ago

Exactly, there's nothing stopping someone from reading what it puts out and going "what? That doesn't belong there" and cleaning it up a little.

phoghed•11m ago

lurn_mor•34m ago

Pun notwithstanding, what a fun itch to scratch! A clever single-user solution becomes it's own industry. I'd love to repeat this sort of growth myself, and find such clever solutions to real world problems.

k310•22m ago

Canine discoid lupus erythematosus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_discoid_lupus_erythemat...

mixmastamyk•22m ago

Hmmm, something made to sit in direct sunlight shouldn’t be black or very dark.

anamexis•17m ago

Like dog noses?

matsemann•19m ago

The idea is good and cute (the AI writing is a slog to read though). But I wince a bit at seeing a pit with something looking like a mouth guard at a glance, as if they're not scary enough already.

dieselgate•7m ago

We rarely use a muzzle for our shepherd but the ironic part is people keep extra distance because it looks so menacing.

satnhak•13m ago

My dog has no nose. How does it smell? Awful.

dieselgate•11m ago

My dog has a very smelly nose!

billfor•12m ago

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46094460 from 11 months ago.

RajuChacha108•4m ago

I think there will be a market for video game styles armour for dogs

The critics never point this out though. They typically just find the first AI smell then proudly announce to everyone that they didn’t finish the article. It’s the new HN meta for securing upvotes with low effort.

I do generally agree though that the author should edit or rewrite completely the AI output since he clearly put a lot of effort into the thing he made itself.

tdeck•9m ago

> The critics never point this out though. They typically just find the first AI smell then proudly announce to everyone that they didn’t finish the article.

I mean, I'm the "critic" that started this thread and my comment doesn't say that, so what exactly is your problem? If it were poor writing for any other reason would you have the same kneejerk defensive reaction that you have about poor AI writing?

hansvm•15m ago

s/enhanced/diminished ... because it matters

randomblock1•14m ago

If nobody complains, nothing changes. At the very least Claude's output should have been edited and improved, but it reads like it was mostly copy-paste.

x187463•8m ago

I dislike one-shot LLM prose as much as the next person, but there's no chance this use case ever goes away. Writing is difficult and takes a long time. Using an LLM to write for you gets your message across with the least effort. It's here to stay. Our only hope is that the models simply start writing better.

dilap•13m ago

We've got to shame this shit until it stops. LLMs are great; don't use them to write for you. Especially not in the first fucking person.

notnaut•12m ago

lazy writing is always valid ground for criticism…

dawnerd•9m ago

The rapist attitude of just say yes and accept it is disgusting.

x187463•8m ago

My dude, reading AI writing on a product page is not in the universe of being sexually assaulted.

2OEH8eoCRo0•9m ago

It's kind of insulting. Like they didn't take the time to write it but expect me to spend time reading it.

1shooner•9m ago

I think calling out AI is pretty 'mainstreamed' at this point, if that's our criteria.

hungryhobbit•7m ago

This dude invented not one but multiple dog health care products ... with no animal product design background whatsoever! Then (with no business background) he started an entire company helping hundreds of dogs all over the world.

Maybe instead of expecting everyone to be good at everything, we cut this guy a little slack and let him use AI to help write?

micromacrofoot•4m ago

no one's preventing him from using it, we're pointing out flaws with the tool in an effort to get people to improve

bobsmooth•6m ago

Yeah, it's every paragraph.

RajuChacha108•5m ago

Unnecessary comment. It is really heartwarming to see an individual do something in his spare time that helps 100s of being that can't speak for themselves.

drcongo•5m ago

I find it so much more annoying when it's on something that should be genuinely interesting - I just can't read this even though I do actually want to.

dyauspitr•4m ago

You don’t know that. He could be a terrible writer.

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