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Nuggets

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What it is

"Nuggets" is a five-minute animated short by Andreas Hykade in which a kiwi bird tastes a golden nugget and keeps chasing the high. It works as a parable about addiction, habituation and withdrawal.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters use it as a wordless illustration of addiction, shared in threads about children and screens, drugs and habit-forming products.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2022, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “Here is a perfect video to do that”

    Teaches children what addiction means.

    tboyd47, 2022-12 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: How do you protect your children from internet addiction?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: animation, addiction, habituation, short film, withdrawal

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