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Ben Millam
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Ben Millam's personal blog at benjaminmillam.com covers culture. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Monkey the Cat Hunts for Dinner”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's cat-geek posts about DIY automated cat feeders and a cat trained to hunt for its food. The comments cite them as related projects in threads on pet hacks and animal training.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My weekend interests and passion projects.
Most-linked posts?
- Monkey the Cat Hunts for Dinner3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-08-07
What Hacker News says?
Reminds me of this recent HN post on cat-proofing a cat feeding machine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13230904 http://quinndunki.com/blondihacks/?p=3023 And the older one on making Monkey the cat hunt for his dinner: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10021268 http://benjaminmillam.com/cat-geek/monkey-the-cat-hunts-for-...
Comment linking /cat-geek/monkey-the-cat-hunts-for-dinner/
on “Build your own hackable automated cat feeder for $20”Submitted Monkey the Cat Hunts for Dinner as a story · 215 points
HN discussionA fellow trained his cat to "hunt" whiffle balls around the apartment so it would have a chance to, well, act like a cat for its food. Sort of. It's neat, anyway. http://benjaminmillam.com/cat-geek/monkey-the-cat-hunts-for-...
Comment linking /cat-geek/monkey-the-cat-hunts-for-dinner/
on “Training crows to pick up cigarette butts for food”