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Has it always been the case on HN that submissions relating to hallucinogenic and/or disassociative drugs rocket to the front page?

snissn 6y ago
Hell yeah
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tayo42 6y ago
Wheres all the psychonaut programmers at work? Ive read before psychedelic use goes back to the original silicon valley companies.
NikolaeVarius 6y ago
I Want to read about demonized drugs helping people more than side projects or next js framework
pmoriarty 6y ago
No. It hasn't always been this way. Interest in psychedelics (on HN and on many other forums, media outlets, and society in general) was rekindled at the start of the so-called Psychedelic Renaissance, when very positive results of new research in psychedelics was announced. Michael Pollan's "Trip Treatment" article[1] was one of the first to make mainstream readers aware this was going on. After that the floodgates opened as more and more positive research results were announced. HN, like many other news aggregators, discussion forums, and social media outlets followed this trend, and psychedelic users started coming out of the closet... leading to more interest and more coverage. Then microdosing psychedelics started to become trendy, and it seems a lot of people in tech got in to that as well. So now it seems we have a situation where quite a few people on HN are interested in this subject. But, no, it wasn't always like this, and HN used to be much more narrowly focused on tech and startups than it is now. [1] - https://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/the-trip-treatment/ https://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/the-trip-treatmen...
iSnow 6y ago
I don't think so. But 10y ago, HN was still young, having fun with tons of coffee and beer. Now, HN is gotten older and the latest framework isn't that exciting anymore, coffee is weighing on concentration and depression has taken a toll.
ketamine__ 6y ago
There is a lot of treatment resistant depression and psychedelics may be effective.

snissn 6y ago

Hell yeah

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tayo42 6y ago

Wheres all the psychonaut programmers at work? Ive read before psychedelic use goes back to the original silicon valley companies.

NikolaeVarius 6y ago

I Want to read about demonized drugs helping people more than side projects or next js framework

pmoriarty 6y ago

No. It hasn't always been this way. Interest in psychedelics (on HN and on many other forums, media outlets, and society in general) was rekindled at the start of the so-called Psychedelic Renaissance, when very positive results of new research in psychedelics was announced. Michael Pollan's "Trip Treatment" article[1] was one of the first to make mainstream readers aware this was going on. After that the floodgates opened as more and more positive research results were announced. HN, like many other news aggregators, discussion forums, and social media outlets followed this trend, and psychedelic users started coming out of the closet... leading to more interest and more coverage. Then microdosing psychedelics started to become trendy, and it seems a lot of people in tech got in to that as well. So now it seems we have a situation where quite a few people on HN are interested in this subject. But, no, it wasn't always like this, and HN used to be much more narrowly focused on tech and startups than it is now. [1] - https://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/the-trip-treatment/ https://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/the-trip-treatmen...

iSnow 6y ago

I don't think so. But 10y ago, HN was still young, having fun with tons of coffee and beer. Now, HN is gotten older and the latest framework isn't that exciting anymore, coffee is weighing on concentration and depression has taken a toll.

ketamine__ 6y ago

There is a lot of treatment resistant depression and psychedelics may be effective.