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Troof is a personal blog at troof.blog about health, science and data. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022)”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
6HN people?
2022–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2022

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Troof's nootropics posts, which include rating and probability-of-positive-effect charts for supplement and anti-aging research. One commenter pointed to them in a rapamycin thread.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Recent posts Self-experiments Actual experiments PRL-8-53 self-experiment Meta Self-experiments in a power law world Passive measures for lazy self-experimenters Should you be lean ? * Is Fitbit a good way to measure sleep ? * Using typing speed as a proxy for lazy self-experiments * Using Anki

Most-linked posts?

  1. What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022)
    6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-03-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. Weight lifting, ironically. (see the rating + probability of positive effect charts here. [Warning, this is another insane rabbit hole of research to fall into!]): https://troof.blog/posts/nootropics/

    Comment linking /posts/nootropics/

    on “Rapamycin: The unlucky history of the most powerful anti-aging drug”
  2. Submitted What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022) as a story · 127 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted What I learned gathering thousands of nootropic ratings as a story · 3 points

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  4. Submitted What I learned gathering thousands of nootropics ratings as a story · 2 points

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