I’m not a fan of the overuse of terms like “dopamine” and “oxycotin”. They are often innapropriately technical and specific—the common intuition is that pleasurable things can be addictive,[1] and that is all that 99% of people mean when they dismissively refer to something as giving a “dopamine hit”.

We can just call things “pleasurable” instead of posing as if we know anything about neurotransmitters. (Not to offend the inevitable handful of actual neuroscientists that happen to be browsing this thread on Hacker News—carry on.)

[1] I have nothing to say about whether this is close to the truth or not.