Nuggets
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.
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.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2022 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec tboyd47 · 2022-12 · on “Ask HN: How do you protect your children from internet addiction?”
I've been fighting this battle for years and I still fight it every day with my kids. First, you MUST set limits on everything addictive to children in your house including the internet. Limit the content they can access and the place and time they can use it. You can adjust the limits, but never remove them. Second, if they're old enough, explain the concept of addiction to them. Here is a perfect video to do that: [this video] A child will understand exactly what addiction means after watching this video. Third, show them that you also have limits on your own tech usage. They might not be the same limits you put on them, but you have limits. They will understand this way that limits are not som
Cites xg15 · 2023-01 · on “There Was Nothing “Wasted” About My Youth Spent Clubbing on Ecstasy”
What you said reminded me of the bird video about withdrawal and habituation: [this video] (which of course may be biased in the other direction) But that's my stance on drug use as well: It's pretty irrelevant how great your time is while you're on it if it turns your life into hell whenever you're not on it.
Cites throwaway74432 · 2024-04 · on “7 out of every 10 Fentanyl pills seized by DEA contain a lethal dose”
Just because a drug doesn't kill you physically, doesn't mean it doesn't harm you in other deeply profound ways. Related: Nuggets[1] 1. [this video]
Cites ares623 · 2026-05 · on “Claude for Legal”
It's like that short animation of a Kiwi bird getting high[1]. Each cycle gets shorter and shorter to sustain the high. [1] [this video]