HACKER Q&A
📣 mdaverde

Is Hacker News becoming more medical/health related?


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?

  👤 iamflimflam1 Accepted Answer ✓
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.

👤 darkclouds
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.
👤 night-rider
HN is STEM focused so of course these articles appear. In-fact I would be worried if medical/health wasn't covered here.