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J.D. Moyer
Personal blog · jdmoyer.comwritinghealthculture
J.D. Moyer's personal blog at jdmoyer.com covers writing, health and culture. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link J.D. Moyer's posts on fasting as a way to clear cellular damage ("Death will eat itself", 2012) and on a month-long sleep experiment (2010), as sources for their points about recovery and longevity.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
science fiction author, beatmaker, against fascism
What Hacker News says?
One solution to damage clean up is free and available to everyone right now. It's actually more popular with the extremely poor than the affluent. It's called fasting. http://jdmoyer.com/2012/02/01/death-will-eat-itself/ https://www.qiagen.com/us/spotlight-pages/newsletters-and-ma...
Comment linking /2012/02/01/death-will-eat-itself/
on “Google Ventures' Bill Maris Investing in Idea of Living to 500”Submitted 40 Days Without Booze as a story · 308 points
HN discussionTo recover well: https://www.jdmoyer.com/2010/03/04/sleep-experiment-a-month-... For understanding our place on Earth: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/
Comment linking /2010/03/04/sleep-experiment-a-month-with-no-artificial-light/
on “Ask HN: 30, burnt out, with 6-10 months of runway. What would you do?”Submitted Sleep Experiment – A Month With No Artificial Light as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exposing Yourself to Positive Black Swans as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Imagining Best Case Scenarios as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Luck is the Opposite of Efficiency as a story · 1 points
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