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How they clean the balls in a ball pit
- bombcar 1y agoI'm honestly surprised to learn they DO clean the balls; I somewhat assumed they would just throw the fouled ones away, and every once in awhile replace them all.
- rimunroe 1y agoThose balls are pretty expensive when you consider the volume needed. When my brother made his ball pit it ended up being more expensive than a nice couch. I think the price for the crush-resistant type at the time (~2007-2008) was around $0.20-0.25 per ball.
- rtkwe 1y agoThe more central to the business the more likely it is they have the dedicated cleaning equipment. It takes a fair amount of space so places like fast food restaurants are less likely to have one (but might use a service that comes by with one too).
- gjm11 1y agoGuess what? Actual title is "Here's how they ...". As usual, HN automunges it to make it mean something different and if anything more clickbaity than the original title. Can't we stop doing this?
- mountainriver 1y agoYes this is a deeply annoying “feature” of HN
- rtkwe 1y agoWhich is amusing given the otherwise fairly strict doctrine of not modifying the source headline even when it would clarify what you're posting to give people a better context of what the link is about.
- philipwhiuk 1y agoI'd rather these articles weren't posted at all
- pirates 1y agoI’d rather read something like this occasionally instead of yet another submission focused on AI
- oneeyedpigeon 1y agoHow does this even happen? I assumed it was bad metadata in the article (which is usually the cause of this problem on social media in general) but everything there looks fine.
- rcxdude 1y agoHN basically has some regexes it automatically applies to titles. Then sometimes it gets adjusted afterwards when the result turns out to be nonsense.
- superice 1y agoI've wondered this as well, I'd love to hear from the mods as to how many false positives vs true positives this generates. Us, the lowly users, only spot it when it mangles a title, but does it actually provide some tangible benefit? I don't want to judge this 'feature' too harshly without that data, but couldn't 80% of the value of this be achieved by putting the text 'please don't editorialize titles of submissions except to de-clickbaitify them' in the submission form?
- oneeyedpigeon 1y agoOr just use the <title> of the page verbatim? If it's clickbaity, it'll get downvoted, as it should.
- llm_nerd 1y agoIsn't it more likely the submitter chose the title? HN doesn't even auto-recommend a title for submitted content, and instead it's up to the submitter. In rare cases after the fact a mod like dang changes the title to remove editorialization. So unsure what this whole thread of people complaining about HN supposedly mangling titles.
- sd9 1y agoHN does remove some prefixes from titles automatically
- rjmorris 1y agoCan you elaborate on how the two titles mean something different? To my reading, "Here's how they ..." and "How they ..." mean the same thing. "Here's" is unnecessary. (Not saying I agree with HN removing it automatically, just that in this case I don't think it changes the meaning.)
- sahruum9 1y agoI don't think I follow. What is HN doing to the title? Deleting the word "Here's"?
- rob74 1y agoThe ball pits are an inevitable fixture at Ikea's "Småland" playgrounds, but I didn't know they actually invented them. TIL...
- aimor 1y agoHow do they clean the blocks in a foam pit?
- IAmBroom 1y agoSpecially trained ball-licking chihuahuas. Given breath mints.
- NoSalt 1y agoUnfortunately ... this is probably only how they clean the balls in a VERY small minority of ball pits. The majority are probably still germ superspreaders.
- Faaak 1y agoGood for your kids if you believe in the hygiene hypothesis though
- wackget 1y agoThere's supposed to be a video at the bottom of the article but it's not visible in the UK due to Imgur blocking UK users. As annoying as Google's monopoly of the web is, I wish sites would just stick with YouTube for video content.
- xnx 1y ago> I wish sites would just stick with YouTube for video content. Or host them directly as an .mp4 file would work fine in most cases.
- oneeyedpigeon 1y agoThanks. It would be slightly less of a kick-in-the-balls if the page told you there was a video that was blocked, rather than just leaving a big empty space.
- cwillu 1y agoThis needs a [video] tag, as the entirety of the content referenced in the title is in the video.
- spmealin 1y agoHow disappointing. From the perspective of a blind, screen-reading software user, this article just... ends.
- oneeyedpigeon 1y agoIf it's any consolation, from the perspective of a visual browser user who scrolls to the bottom, this article just... keeps on going forever. And it really fucks with your browser history if you do so! (Oh, and it also just ends abruptly after "Here's what the machines do:")
- hsbauauvhabzb 1y agoiOS user with clear eyesight here, the article just ends for me too - other users have suggested there’s an imgur video embedded somewhere but I can’t see where, just some awkward photos of a ball pit vacuum washer.
- llm_nerd 1y agoThey show it going through a machine that seems to at best maybe vacuum off dust and maybe get a part of the ball with UV? Am I missing something? Seems more like the illusion of cleaning. The description of Chucky cheese running them through an industrial dishwasher seems more like actual cleaning. In the description it calls it a "deep clean", which seems suspect.
- gruez 1y ago>They show it going through a machine that seems to at best maybe vacuum off dust and maybe get a part of the ball with UV? Am I missing something? It gets washed off with soap and water inside the machine, you can tell because in the video you can see soap suds, shortly after it shows the UV step.
- satellite2 1y agoThey're foamy in the middle after ingestion and before being sucked in the tube it seems