This is kind of a weird article to make frontpage of HN
This could have happened without social media, but it was a significant facilitator in getting all parties in contact with each other.
I’d say this is sort of interesting. I don’t know my dog breeds but my first thought was this dog must have some sheep dog heritage. I’m amazed looking at my children how many of their thought processes, how their brains are wired, seem to be genetically inherited. And, like what kind of work would my daughter naturally gravitate towards if she was ejected from a car crash at an equivalent age of this dog…
The article says it's a Border Collie, which is an extremely smart, extremely capable sheepdog. My family had border collies and with zero training or interaction with other dogs from which they could've learned the behaviour, they'd naturally try to round us up.
Certainly stretching a bit, but the article is an interesting commentary on one of our most primitive technologies. (Or you can consider the selective breeding process itself to be the technology powering this)