They Clean the Balls in a Ball Pit

gjm11

Guess 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

Yes this is a deeply annoying “feature” of HN

rtkwe

Which 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

I'd rather these articles weren't posted at all

rob74

The ball pits are an inevitable fixture at Ikea's "Småland" playgrounds, but I didn't know they actually invented them. TIL...

wackget

There'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

> 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.

NoSalt

Unfortunately ... this is probably only how they clean the balls in a VERY small minority of ball pits. The majority are probably still germ superspreaders.

cwillu

This needs a [video] tag, as the entirety of the content referenced in the title is in the video.

aimor

How do they clean the blocks in a foam pit?

IAmBroom

Specially trained ball-licking chihuahuas.

Given breath mints.

bombcar

I'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

Those 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

The 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).

spmealin

How disappointing. From the perspective of a blind, screen-reading software user, this article just... ends.