Hacker News: LaurenSerino

Grief gets an expiration date, just like us

LaurenSerino — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:17:40 +0000

Article URL: https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/oh-fuck-youre-still-sad

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45290021

Points: 461

# Comments: 211

Help pass Jake Seliger- inspired right to try and clinical trial reform bill

LaurenSerino — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:34:11 +0000

Hacker News, Jake Seliger’s story inspired new laws. New Hampshire is voting on a new bill HB701 that would make clinical trial access easier for terminal patients and massively expand right to try laws for the dying. Please lend your support by emailing members of the NH health committee before they vote tomorrow. Opposition is pushing hard, claiming that it’s more “dignified” to choose for patients and just let them die instead of helping move scientific progress forward, as Jake wanted to do.

To read more about the bill, links are available on his wife’s published testimony, although the link to show support before the hearing is closed. Please email the reps instead if you can: https://open.substack.com/pub/bessstillman/p/the-seliger-act-testimony-for-a-new?r=16l8ek&utm_medium=ios

Reps to email:

elephantsmarching@msn.com Lisa.Mazur@gc.nh.gov Matt.Drew@gc.nh.gov mark.mclean@gc.nh.gov Susan.DeLemus@gc.nh.gov Jim.Kofalt@gc.nh.gov Yury.Polozov@gc.nh.gov Jay.Markell@gc.nh.gov Linda.McGrath@gc.nh.gov Steven.Kesselring@gc.nh.gov Lucy.weber@gc.nh.gov james.mackay@mygait.com Gary.Woods@gc.nh.gov William.Palmer@gc.nh.gov Trinidad.Tellez@gc.nh.gov Jessica.Lamontagne@gc.nh.gov Tim.Hartnett@gc.nh.gov Janet.Lucas@gc.nh.gov

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43402203

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The year I didn't survive

LaurenSerino — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 02:07:52 +0000

Article URL: https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/the-year-i-didnt-survive

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43020983

Points: 949

# Comments: 262

New comment by LaurenSerino in "[dead]"

LaurenSerino — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 01:01:38 +0000

New essay from Jake Seliger’s widow. Baby Athena is due in the next few days.

mRNA vaccines: let's eradicate herpes, cure cancer, and be sick a whole lot less

LaurenSerino — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 23:51:44 +0000

Article URL: https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/mrna-vaccines-lets-be-sick-a-whole

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39655587

Points: 112

# Comments: 76

Throw the kitchen sink at cancer: a new era of try-everything?

LaurenSerino — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 05:11:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00392-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39379347

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by LaurenSerino in "John Locke's recipe for Pancakes (2021)"

LaurenSerino — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:45:43 +0000

I, too, enjoy a nice, fluffy, social contract

Cancer speaks its own language: life, death and linguistic relativity

LaurenSerino — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:43:53 +0000

Article URL: https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/death-speaks-its-own-language-bridging

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39361918

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

In Defense of Boring: A Story

LaurenSerino — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 02:36:25 +0000

Article URL: https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-boring

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39310761

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by LaurenSerino in "Untranslatable"

LaurenSerino — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 19:47:50 +0000

Bad UX, great idea. Cursing in other languages is my prime influence for learning them.

Does metformin prevent long Covid?

LaurenSerino — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 23:10:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00299-2/fulltext

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39136749

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Do Elephants Have Souls?

LaurenSerino — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 23:25:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/do-elephants-have-souls

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39124050

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

The calculus of connection: what if what keeps you alive keeps you from living?

LaurenSerino — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 01:32:28 +0000

Article URL: https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/the-calculus-of-connection-and-the

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39112507

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by LaurenSerino in "Researchers trace a form of lupus back to a single mutation"

LaurenSerino — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:31:40 +0000

New comment by LaurenSerino in "Researchers trace a form of lupus back to a single mutation"

LaurenSerino — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:31:36 +0000

I wonder if there's a viral trigger to some of these mutations, similar to the way EBV is implicated in the development of MS. It would also be interesting to do a longitudinal study in families that tend toward autoimmunity evaluating infant DNA to DNA later in life if they develop lupus to see when the mutuation occurs: is it present at birth or acquired?

New comment by LaurenSerino in "Where Have All the Websites Gone?"

LaurenSerino — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 18:56:10 +0000

"Creating content" meant for a platform tends to reduce quality to the lowest common denominator of what will work for that platform. When the algorithm reigns supreme, there's less incentive to try something new. The internet has lost its sense of fun creative trial and error.

Smelling women's tears decreases male aggression?

LaurenSerino — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 03:56:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newswise.com/articles/sniffing-women-s-tears-reduces-aggressive-behavior-in-men

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38750965

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Study: Can LSD&Shrooms treat chronic pain w\o the tolerance created by opioids?

LaurenSerino — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 22:17:55 +0000

Article URL: https://doubleblindmag.com/lsd-psilocybin-pain-study/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38748843

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Remembering things that haven't happened yet

LaurenSerino — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 22:56:06 +0000

Article URL: https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/remembering-things-that-havent-happened

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38635382

Points: 166

# Comments: 27

New comment by LaurenSerino in "I used AI to make an app to help me with my ADHD"

LaurenSerino — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 05:19:36 +0000

I'm amused, but this would drive me absolutely effing bonkers and i wouldn't get anything done. It might be good for certain activities but for deep work and writing I'd lose it. Its the ticking.