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Ask HN: Is Hacker News becoming more medical/health related?
3 points by mdaverde 1022 days ago
I'm not sure when this trend started but it seems to me that a lot of articles that hit the front page are more medically or health related, especially on the weekends.

Just this morning I see:

Feds probing roughly 5k pilots suspected of withholding major health issues

Ask HN: My mother is slowly looking her eyesight, how to prepare?

A new method to reprogram human cells to better mimic embryonic stem cells

Federal study links testicular cancer to ‘forever chemicals’

‘Oh my God’: live worm found in Australian woman’s brain in worldfirst discovery

On being ready to die, and yet also now being able to swallow ice cream

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Is anyone else seeing this trend?

If so, why do we think this is happening?

4 comments

The hacker news demographic is getting older and starting to worry about mortality and health?

I started reading hacker news in 2009 according to my profile. I'd have been coming up to 40 years old then - I'm now early 50's failing health, aged parents and siblings are now becoming bigger concerns.

Healthcare is up to ~20% of GDP. Should be a lot of tech ppl interested.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-....

Possibly, as we get older and find the established medical experts are not delivering on the promise of good health in old age, people start questioning why.
HN is STEM focused so of course these articles appear. In-fact I would be worried if medical/health wasn't covered here.