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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

https://imaginationlibrary.com/
88•jumploops•58m ago•19 comments

I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27

https://talkweb.eu/openweb/4558/
181•Tomte•1h ago•82 comments

A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis

https://lynchlab.net/llm-skin-cancer
178•sungam•2h ago•100 comments

Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop

https://theintercept.com/2026/10/01/oregon-police-misconduct-public-records-cost-fee/
122•tdeck•1h ago•20 comments

VCF Southwest 2026, but Edited on Silicon Graphics for '90s TV [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46wxttvq9qY
24•zdw•1d ago•5 comments

We should be more ambitious with the software we build

https://danluu.com/ambitious/
675•ltratt•21h ago•632 comments

Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset

https://www.dreamhoststatus.com/
55•greenchair•6h ago•22 comments

AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework

https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/ai-use-leads-uc-berkeley-math-professor-to-see-no-...
84•romanhn•2h ago•132 comments

Recreate the Apollo Guidance Computer

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/recreate-the-apollo-guidance-computer/
12•Brajeshwar•3d ago•0 comments

JetBrains Thinkrail

https://github.com/JetBrains/thinkrail
7•hmokiguess•2h ago•0 comments

Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models

https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/how-we-deploy-trillion-parameter-frontier-models-on-cerebras
323•gmays•17h ago•114 comments

Sabre Wulf Remastered

https://gp-64.com/swr/
46•adunk•2h ago•6 comments

Show HN: Hurston-1 open source TTS that speak Southern American and Afro-English

https://huggingface.co/destined/hurston-1
6•Gcarter08•17h ago•1 comments

Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles

https://bigwhalehunting.com/workforce/
140•vfxGer•4h ago•44 comments

Root shell on Samsung TV

https://twitter.com/log4j/status/2113014142600953868?s=46
652•testing22321•1d ago•510 comments

Bring Back the Cool Save File Screens

https://scabshack.lol/posts/bring-back-the-cool-save-file-screens
52•surprisetalk•3d ago•15 comments

fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine

https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2
179•tosh•8h ago•63 comments

How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made

https://kottke.org/26/10/how-japanese-dried-bonito-is-made
164•bookofjoe•3d ago•44 comments

The Goose Programming Language

https://aardappel.github.io/goose/
536•bobbydigitales•1d ago•331 comments

All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"

https://isburmistrov.substack.com/p/all-you-need-is-wide-events-not-metrics
17•bootlegbilly•1h ago•4 comments

Dijkstra vs. A* vs. Contraction Hierarchies

https://arcadedb.com/route-planning.html
4•signa11•4d ago•0 comments

Fuck Nuance (2015)

https://crookedtimber.org/2015/08/31/fuck-nuance/
18•bariumbitmap•1h ago•2 comments

UTS #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms

https://unicode.org/reports/tr39/
4•robin_reala•2h ago•0 comments

SpeedCrunch 1.1

https://www.speedcrunch.org/
211•LordNibbler•1d ago•47 comments

Reverse engineer of PC-98 Touhou games retires

https://rec98.nmlgc.net/blog/2026-10-05
61•mimasama•3d ago•38 comments

Show HN: ReVault – new secure archive format

9•bsutto•17h ago•3 comments

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
1652•sohkamyung•2d ago•253 comments

Small Programs and Languages

https://ratfactor.com/cards/pl-small
175•andsoitis•21h ago•27 comments

Scientists rediscover how to make ancient Roman colour-changing glass

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/oct/25/scientists-rediscover-ancient-roman-colour-changi...
18•teleforce•2h ago•2 comments

Amazon's "digital pacifier" for toddlers

https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/amazons-digital-pacifier-for-toddlers
44•jumploops•4d ago•54 comments
Open in hackernews

Amazon's "digital pacifier" for toddlers

https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/amazons-digital-pacifier-for-toddlers
43•jumploops•4d ago

Comments

ArcHound•53m ago
If you think this is a good idea, please tell my why, happy to discuss.

I have nothing else to say rn.

voidfunc•47m ago
They're going to use a device anyways because mom or dad are going to want to avoid parenting. Might as well give them something designed for them.
dangond•45m ago
Enabling the avoidance of parenting incentivizes parents who would otherwise be parenting to also avoid parenting. I agree with OP, hard to see how this is a good thing.
ArcHound•43m ago
That's no reason to design devices that enable this parent behaviour. We should move in the other direction. Shaming parents who overly rely on giving kids devices for adults can be somewhat effective.

I know there's no hard leverage.

voidfunc•41m ago
Most of us live in reality land.
alt227•38m ago
What? My kids have never ever had a screen of their own. They sit still in restaurants and flights like well parented kids have for decades. Anyone who thinks screens are required for bringing up children is ignoring countless research projects which prove otherwise, and are actively hurting their childrens development.
0c3ca83•33m ago
It's a such a shame that it's impossible to parent children without a screen in reality land.
vachina•25m ago
Reality is nobody forced you to have kids.

If you cannot raise your kids properly, please dont have kids.

tripleee•18m ago
Reality is that telling future bad parents not to have kids isn't going to stop them having kids, even if you say please
microtonal•8m ago
Our kid has certainly not had access to tablets/phones the first years of her life and only rarely until she was 9 or 10 or so. We have also banned phones from the dinner table, etc. from the beginning.

Parenting takes time and focus. Putting 0-6 years olds behind a tablet screen is just absolving yourself from your responsibility as a parent. Some TV time can be ok after 3 years or so, but you have to time it strictly (so that it does not become a convenience) and exclude some types of cartoons [1].

[1] https://thesciencesurvey.com/editorial/2024/07/07/the-proble...

tripleee•42m ago
Demand for products comes from the consumer, not the producer. This trend happened a long time ago, with parents giving their kids a tablet to avoid actually parenting.

Maybe it's making the best of bad parents

layer8•40m ago
I thought that people don't know what they want until you show it to them? They thought they wanted faster horsies but Amazon gave them noxious cars?
tripleee•26m ago
The demand was for transportation, not any specific product.

Amazon's target market here, wants to parent their kids without parenting their kids. Whether that's a TV with cartoons 20 years ago, a tablet 5 years ago, or a "digital pacifier" today nothing has changed. It's just being fulfilled differently.

My point is that the responsibility is on parents, not companies who will inevitably get the blame and nothing will change. See the other commenter here who said their kids don't even own a tablet.

ArcHound•37m ago
Not always. AI is being pushed on plenty of people. Let's just say that not all products serve consumers and there's room for regulation.

Even if I want to buy uranium, I shouldn't. And if I want to buy a chair, I shouldn't be seeing only uranium chairs.

ctoth•33m ago
Amusingly, I totally bought Uranium off of Amazon ~7 years ago when I wanted to test my Geiger counter. Doesn't seem to be available anymore though? Sad!
TZubiri•22m ago
doing devil’s advocate here, because it does look like a nightmare.

IF my kids were to have access to a tablet, I would prefer it be a tablet specifically desgined for kids, rather than a commodity all powerful generic computing device and OS

alt227•31m ago
IMO even parents who use digital devices to pacify their children know they are making bad choices, but just choose to anyway out of convenience. This choice mirrors a lot which adults have to make these days, and fighting convenience requires strong will and sticking to principles. This is not something which comes naturally or easily to humans unfortunately.
rwyinuse•29m ago
Somebody should study whether giving a smart device to a toddler increases their chances of getting ADHD diagnosis and medication at later age. Probably the answer is yes.

If shitty parent's don't care about well-being of their children, they could at least consider the cost of future medication, not to even mention likely worse performance in school and job market.

jdiff•27m ago
From the article,

> While observing 422 children ages 3 to 5, a 2022 study led by Radesky found that mobile device use for calming — in other words, a digital pacifier — was associated with “decreased executive functioning and increased emotional reactivity.” (Executive function refers to memory and problem-solving skills needed for everyday life. Emotional reactivity refers to poor impulse control in response to stress, pain, and other negative feelings.)

ADHD is a type of executive function disorder.

veverkap•26m ago
> One product design that concerned me was the handle — like it’s intended to be carried around like a briefcase

Has the extra benefit of getting them ready for the workforce. /s

archon1410•22m ago
The drop-proof design is good selling point even for adults. Few phones and tablets come that rugged from the factory. The long battery life/playback time too. Might see some use among adults if wasn't stuck with the $9/month subscription.
sigma5•21m ago
It's funny how those same billionaires who sell these devices, do not give their children devices until the age of 14.

PS to parents: give you child a toy or a book not a tablet ffs.

tintor•8m ago
I agree for age of 3-6 years, but until age 14 is ridiculous.

Not all devices are equally bad.

I've been happily learning to code my own video games on Intel 486 PC in QuickBasic since late elementary school (age 10), and yes, I played outdoors with other kids too.

Before I had PC of my own, I was making them on paper (game design and mechanics, not literal code).

tripleee•40m ago
So.. stop producing smartphones / tablets? TVs? What's your other option?
lrvick•34m ago
Stop marketing to them to kids or normalizing kids using them?

This is really not that hard. Modern app culture is highly addictive and provably poison for our brains over time. Adults can choose poison if they wish but when they give it to their kids it is called child abuse.

ArcHound•30m ago
I'm not saying go to zero. But definitely not over 3 hours and definitely not a dedicated device for them.
rpdillon•39m ago
> Shaming parents who overly rely on giving kids devices for adults can be somewhat effective.

I'd like to hear more about the results you've gotten with this approach. How do you approach is this with your kids?

ArcHound•30m ago
I don't have data, I don't run a study. Are you saying that shame is an ineffective mechanism of social cohesion?

With my kids, I oversee everything they do (they are under 6). They average 15min daily for two episodes of a kids show.

I'm not saying go to zero. But definitely not over 3 hours and definitely not a dedicated device for them.

pizza234•23m ago
> How do you approach is this with your kids?

Regarding my kids: high priority, wide/curated choice (not in terms of restriction, but in terms of actively finding things they may like), accompanied learning, and, crucially, starting from a very young age. It's pretty much standard parenting, that is, one gets out what one puts in.

By the time children start to pressure for this type of devices (say, 10/12), they will have learned to enjoy books and more creative activities.

veverkap•25m ago
My only possible counterpoint in agreement is whataboutism. Companies make lots of devices designed for "negative" behavior.

Not an excuse but an explanation perhaps?

TZubiri•21m ago
parents will do it anyways, so products that have child safety features are being developed
tripleee•10m ago
I mean uranium can be a hazard to people around you, so I don't think that's an equivalent scenario.

Drugs could be a good analogy as it (mostly) affects yourself. A safe route for people to buy those would fix the #1 leading cause of death of young adults in the US today (fentanyl)

1shooner•28m ago
This is also a great argument for low-tar cigarettes for children.
tripleee•13m ago
Do you have a strong argument against them?

The group of parents who let their kids smoke might get those instead, improving their health

The parents who don't allow it would never consider them

I suppose it depends how many of group 2 could be converted to 1 if they were "low tar!".. my intuition is close to zero