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Compiling Ruby to Machine Language

https://patshaughnessy.net/2025/11/17/compiling-ruby-to-machine-language
80•todsacerdoti•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter

https://bitsnpieces.dev/posts/a-synth-for-my-daughter/
811•random_moonwalk•5d ago•158 comments

Show HN: PrinceJS – 19,200 req/s Bun framework in 2.8 kB (built by a 13yo)

https://princejs.vercel.app
73•lilprince1218•2h ago•26 comments

"One Student One Chip" Course Homepage

https://ysyx.oscc.cc/docs/en/
54•camel-cdr•5d ago•11 comments

My stages of learning to be a socially normal person

https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/my-six-stages-of-learning-to-be-a
193•eatitraw•2d ago•88 comments

Project Gemini

https://geminiprotocol.net/
161•andsoitis•6h ago•95 comments

Show HN: ESPectre – Motion detection based on Wi-Fi spectre analysis

https://github.com/francescopace/espectre
67•francescopace•7h ago•10 comments

FreeMDU: Open-source Miele appliance diagnostic tools

https://github.com/medusalix/FreeMDU
207•Medusalix•8h ago•52 comments

Show HN: Continuous Claude – run Claude Code in a loop

https://github.com/AnandChowdhary/continuous-claude
45•anandchowdhary•2d ago•21 comments

WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model

https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/weathernext-2/
144•meetpateltech•6h ago•55 comments

Insects on the Space Menu

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Insects_on_the_space_menu
12•ohjeez•5d ago•1 comments

An official atlas of North Korea

https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/an-official-atlas-of-north-korea
133•speckx•3h ago•74 comments

Israeli-founded app preloaded on Samsung phones is attracting controversy

https://www.sammobile.com/news/israeli-app-app-cloud-samsung-phones-controversy/
269•croes•4h ago•201 comments

Our dogs' diversity can be traced back to the Stone Age

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9d7j89ykro
24•1659447091•3d ago•8 comments

How to escape the Linux networking stack

https://blog.cloudflare.com/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish-how-to-escape-the-linux-networkin...
65•meysamazad•6h ago•8 comments

Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun

https://www.iflscience.com/the-fall-of-icarus-you-have-never-seen-an-astrophotography-picture-lik...
140•doener•1d ago•29 comments

How when AWS was down, we were not

https://authress.io/knowledge-base/articles/2025/11/01/how-we-prevent-aws-downtime-impacts
61•mooreds•4h ago•29 comments

Giving C a superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h)

https://hwisnu.bearblog.dev/giving-c-a-superpower-custom-header-file-safe_ch/
221•mithcs•11h ago•179 comments

Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies

https://angadh.com/inkhaven-7
27•surprisetalk•6h ago•10 comments

A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

https://epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com/
150•cratermoon•2d ago•31 comments

The time has finally come for geothermal energy

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/why-the-time-has-finally-come-for-geothermal-energy
65•riordan•7h ago•124 comments

DESI's Dizzying Results

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/desis-dizzying-results
17•belter•4h ago•3 comments

Where do the children play?

https://unpublishablepapers.substack.com/p/where-do-the-children-play
263•casca•1d ago•207 comments

EEG-based neurofeedback in athletes and non-athletes

https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5354/12/11/1202
21•PaulHoule•4h ago•7 comments

Are you stuck in movie logic?

https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/are-you-stuck-in-movie-logic
138•eatitraw•9h ago•127 comments

Show HN: Building WebSocket in Apache Iggy with Io_uring and Completion Based IO

https://iggy.apache.org/blogs/2025/11/17/websocket-io-uring/
15•spetz•3h ago•4 comments

People are using iPad OS features on their iPhones

https://idevicecentral.com/ios-customization/how-to-enable-ipad-features-like-multitasking-stage-...
108•K0IN•19h ago•113 comments

Google is killing the open web, part 2

https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/google-killing-open-web-2/
297•akagusu•6h ago•247 comments

Replicate is joining Cloudflare

https://replicate.com/blog/replicate-cloudflare
241•bfirsh•7h ago•56 comments

Show HN: Bsub.io – zero-setup batch execution for command-line tools

11•wkoszek•6h ago•5 comments
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Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies

https://angadh.com/inkhaven-7
27•surprisetalk•6h ago
Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld2E9LWIYJk&list=PLhQ_EZYXXS...

Transcript: https://www.organism.earth/library/document/realizing-human-...

Comments

gnatman•2h ago
Substituted amphetamines were already very popular in the 1950s.
cassepipe•1h ago
... and I didn't know about them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substituted_amphetamine

The most famous in that family seems to be meth(amphetamine)

mhurron•1h ago
And had been researched treat symptoms of depression and what would eventually be called ADHD in the 1930's.
RobotToaster•36m ago
Benzedrine (an amphetamine inhaler) was the first antidepressant marketed (although at the time I believe they used the term "psychic energizer" for antidepressants)
thatoneguy•1h ago
Methamphetamine was invented in Germany in 1937 and the German military at the time was very quick to adopt its use.
earlyriser•1h ago
I read champignons and it kind of fit even better. Adderall (Brave New World) and mushrooms (Island).
brandall10•1h ago
Soma in BNW is more analogous to MDMA as it's about sedated pleasure, not mental clarity/performance.
gwbas1c•37m ago
I seem to think marijuana is more about sedated pleasure than MDMA. Granted, it's been about 30 years since I read Brave New World.
mfro•4m ago
I agree, soma definitely parallels weed much more closely, but I don't think it's a perfect match. Huxley imagines a drug a bit more insidious, without obviously negative side effects, and with somewhat unrealistic(imo) intended effects.
alterom•19m ago
This article (and the title alone) is harmful. Adderall is not about increasing mental efficiency.

What Adderall is about is:

- helping with executive dysfunction for people who suffer from it.

- allowing people with ADHD like me to function. To do the things that everyone else does, things that we want to do and need to do, but can't do because of the way our brains are wired.

- increasing the lifespan of ADHD people who don't get help. Women with ADHD die about 9 years younger than those without ADHD [1].

- making our lives less painful, since every small task incurs pain, resulting in 3x depression rates [2] and alarmingly high suicidal ideation rates (50% of ADHD adults [3]).

Please, please, educate yourself about ADHD and medication for it before writing something like this title.

No, Aldous Huxley didn't. "predict" Adderall.

To understand more, I've put together a resource which, I hope, will be easy enough to digest. Here's my experience of getting prescribed Adderall for my ADHD:

https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Medication

If I have attention deficit and I could write it, I hope you (and the author of the text we're discussing) could spare some attention to it before talking about Adderall, amphetamines, and other stimulants prescribed for ADHD.

Thank you in advance.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/23/nx...

[2] https://add.org/adhd-and-depression/

[3] https://crownviewpsych.com/blog/adhd-increased-risk-suicide-...