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Ask HN: 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?
- WillPostForFood 3y agoHealthcare is up to ~20% of GDP. Should be a lot of tech ppl interested. https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-spending-u-s-compare-countries/#:~:text=In%202020%2C%20the%20U.S.%20spent,higher%20than%20in%20peer%20countries https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-....
- iamflimflam1 3y agoThe 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 3y agoPossibly, 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 3y agoHN is STEM focused so of course these articles appear. In-fact I would be worried if medical/health wasn't covered here.