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thank you for asking, it helped me realize i was probably using downtime within screen time wrong and it can probably get me what i really care about during school hours

yeah of course, it's all or nothing though. i have a 14 year old who is supposedly in a "no phones allowed" school, but they're on them all the time anyway (this is a separate issu…

granular control over push notifications would be great see: recent article about Snap sending pushes to kids during school hours

i live in FL and i think the banning data centers thing is also just political posturing - we are in hurricane alley after all. i really don't think anyone was seriously considerin…

cool story, but this is about Type 1.

as a long time FPS gamer on PC, the change to the matchmaking style feels like it coincided with the rise of consoles and crossplay. it feels odd playing Battlefield with console p…

they also vote

some of the younger people i work with also mention climate change and global instability, amongst other things. they don’t want to bring kids into this world as it exists today.

check out this article (gift link) from yesterday about private equity in youth sports https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/business/youth-sports-pri... > For many families, the mone…

i've done this experiment 2 years in a row with my youngest kiddo as a STEM challenge in elementary school. i thought we got pretty close this year with using heavy duty sponges, p…

anil, your tone is spot on. keep it up. most of us enjoy it. source: decade-old HN lurker acct who lurked for years before that until registering

completely agree. huge enterprises are full of engineers who want to do amazing things from 9-5 and then sign off and forget about work until the next day. what kind of business wo…

dad of an 8 y/o T1D here, and tbh, "how about just ..." is about the worst thing you can say to anyone dealing with this, especially given the subject of this post. things are just…

for the curious amongst us, will meaningful real-time data be available to track the impact to the supply chain?

long time lurker here who registered on HN many years ago after reading Jepsen: Cassandra the Jepsen writeups will surely stand the test of time thank you!

Congrats and welcome!

what a great username to go with this comment