Hacker News with Generative AI: Life Changes

Why some friendships end after kids come into the picture (text.npr.org)
After writer Mariah Maddox gave birth four years ago, she was surprised by how lonely she felt. She was the first person among her close friends to have a kid, and her friends without children seemed to be leaving her behind. "I sometimes felt like I wasn't included in plans," she says.
Personal reflections on moving from Canada to NYC (danfrank.ca)
I’m moving from Canada to New York City this week, and I’m having a mini-existential crisis. There are the personal reasons I feel torn—what if I’m lonely, what if I don’t fit in, what if New York doesn’t magically fix the frustrations I had in Toronto, forcing me to confront the horrifying possibility that there’s no “better place”? But there’s also a bigger reason I’m feeling this way.
Ask HN: Has anyone else stopped playing video games as an adult? (ycombinator.com)