Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderThe comments here don't seem to capture the importance of the "Boy" part. Imagine we were mostly drugging girls. The headlines and reactions would be greater. The story recalls how when Michelle Obama publicized #BringBackOurGirls, laudably promoting saving many innocent girls from kidnapping and worse, Boko Haram had been burning alive and hacking to death many innocent boys for years to little western outcry. We keep changing our culture from the world our emotional systems evolved to handle. Then we…
Next can we talk about SSRI's? My little brother was prescribed Paxil as an adolescent. Now he's in prison for murder. Now Paxil is not allowed to be prescribed for adolescents and children but my brother will die in prison. He behaved exactly how kids prescribed this medicine behave, in a murderous rage.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484204
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 239
- Total comments
- 254
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-03-27 | The Drugging Of The American BoyFirst breakout | Larx-3 | 91 | 102 |
| 2014-12-05 | The Drugging of the American Boy | prostoalex | 3 | 1 |
| 2018-03-04 | The Drugging of the American Boy (2014)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | walterbell | 145 | 151 |