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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 issue)

being able to setup a schedule with only approved apps being able to deliver pushes during a particular time period would be great

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 considering building an AI data center in like St. John's County or whatever

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 players who can’t use the game chat cause they don’t have a keyboard.

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 money they spend on sports is an investment in their child’s future. Roughly two in 10 youth sports parents think their child has the ability to play Division I college sports, and one in 10 thinks his or her child could reach the professional ranks or the Olympics, according to the Aspen Institute survey.

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, paper plates, and a parachute, but was always operating under the assumption that the egg needs to be vertical. i'm excited to try again next year after reading this.

oh and at our school, they bring in a big bucket truck from the local power company and send the teachers up to the top with the devices and let them drop them :)

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 wouldn't want to make sure they're getting the most out of their employees during business hours?

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 never the same. maybe they will be later in adulthood? i feel like i'm in a position to beta test this with my kiddo and i don't like it at all.

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