Dogs and the Bouba-Kiki Effect & Hybrid Reasoning Agents Research - Hacker News (Oct 19, 2026)
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Dogs and the Bouba-Kiki Effect & Hybrid Reasoning Agents Research - Hacker News (Oct 19, 2026)

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Play a dog the made up word Kiki, and it might just glance towards something spiky. Researchers think our four-legged friends may share a quirky piece of human perception, and we'll get to that in a moment. Welcome to The Automated Daily, Hacker News Edition, the podcast created by Generative AI.

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I'm Trent Teller, and today is October 19, 2026. On the agenda, smarter and cheaper AI agents, a programming language designed to confuse AI, a record-breaking Linux release, a 3D printer that works at the scale of microns, and the truth behind an old internet legend about the word cyberspace.

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Let's get into it. First, the dogs. A new study tested 70 domestic dogs on the well-known booba kiki effect. That's the tendency humans have to pair the soft-sounding word booba with rounded shapes,

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