Hacker News: greygoo222

New comment by greygoo222 in "A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life"

greygoo222 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:13:23 +0000

> All biomolecules are chiral.

The confidence with which people say utterly asinine things...

New comment by greygoo222 in "Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row, found dead"

greygoo222 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:44:49 +0000

You can check with your own eyes that entire paragraphs of his work were copied verbatim:

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/07/27/cambridge-jason-arday...

https://ncofnas.com/p/dei-fraud-and-cover-up-at-cambridge

New comment by greygoo222 in "Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row, found dead"

greygoo222 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:42:58 +0000

Entire paragraphs were duplicated verbatim:

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/07/27/cambridge-jason-arday...

https://ncofnas.com/p/dei-fraud-and-cover-up-at-cambridge

New comment by greygoo222 in "I think you might be fooling yourself with AI"

greygoo222 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:55:33 +0000

Downright delusional.

New comment by greygoo222 in "My falling-out with the rationalist community"

greygoo222 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:48:07 +0000

This is a pretty low-quality article that didn't give me the impression the author spent any time in the "rationalist community." It's just a list of the few mainstream controversies.

New comment by greygoo222 in "OpenAI Forked Git on GitHub"

greygoo222 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:04:43 +0000

I am referring to t.me/hackernewslive, 27k subscribers. This post was reposted on Telegram within 2 minutes of it going live on HackerNews, when it still had <5 upvotes, so I feel there has to be either some manual or LLM-driven curation here, or something else.

New comment by greygoo222 in "OpenAI Forked Git on GitHub"

greygoo222 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:55:13 +0000

Who runs the HackerNews Telegram channel? I used to think they had some algorithmic repost script that grabbed top posts, but this is a 5 minute old post by a low-karma account and it got posted to Telegram.

New comment by greygoo222 in "Modern decor may be straining people's brains"

greygoo222 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:38:26 +0000

The world is so big, why spend 40 years in a single place?

New comment by greygoo222 in "What Does a 13-Year-Old See on Snapchat in a Normal Week?"

greygoo222 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:40:47 +0000

It's like the people writing this shit have never been a teenager. I feel like an old man yelling at clouds, but damn, the internet was so much less sanitized when I was 13 and we were happy for it.

New comment by greygoo222 in "Goodebye Forever Probably: Why I’m leaving developer relations"

greygoo222 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 22:15:15 +0000

Has anyone ever heard of this person? Why did this get posted?

New comment by greygoo222 in "Jobs and Software Is Fucked"

greygoo222 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:32:37 +0000

Leetcode/hackerrank problems aren't that high variance, dedicate a weekend studying and you should be good.

New comment by greygoo222 in "Jobs and Software Is Fucked"

greygoo222 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:26:16 +0000

I'm a new grad. It took me about three weeks to get two offers, both from cold applications. I applied to ~100 jobs in total and got first round interviews from 10% of the ones I cold applied to, much higher when I had an in.

I then, uh, turned both offers down because I thought the roles weren't interesting enough and didn't pay enough to make up for not being interesting (170k base). Now I am back in the process and, knock on wood, I am in the middle of final rounds with several companies and expect to have a much better offer by next week.

I have a background in ML and agentic systems, which did come up, but my resume isn't outstanding. No big tech or frontier lab internships, no published papers, no unicorn startup. I wouldn't say finding jobs has been easy, but it hasn't been remotely as difficult as this thread implies, and I believe the statistics back me up here. I suspect this is a "people who aren't struggling don't complain about it online" phenomenon.

Regardless, I wish everyone here best of luck in finding a job.

New comment by greygoo222 in "Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples"

greygoo222 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:58:16 +0000

Please name one "third world country" that enforces gender roles less harshly than the US, particularly the liberal US cities where gender diversity is the most common.

New comment by greygoo222 in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

greygoo222 — Mon, 18 May 2026 03:26:51 +0000

Utterly asinine article that doesn't understand its own subject matter.

New comment by greygoo222 in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"

greygoo222 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:30:24 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_Stat...

New comment by greygoo222 in "Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents"

greygoo222 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:28:18 +0000

Can confirm.

The people behind the website asked a voice agent to program it, and the STT parsed "agent" as "asian."

New comment by greygoo222 in "Notes from the SF peptide scene"

greygoo222 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:20:10 +0000

If someone wants to take Ozempic for cosmetic reasons, that's their business. I am almost certain you personally indulge in riskier activities than using Ozempic, or... modafinil? You know people still use research chemicals, testosterone, and modafinil, right?

New comment by greygoo222 in "R3 Bio pitched “brainless clones” to serve the role of backup human bodies"

greygoo222 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:03:17 +0000

Depends on how they work. Many genes that are active during early development are entirely silenced throughout adulthood, or otherwise have no effect.

New comment by greygoo222 in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

greygoo222 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:51:42 +0000

Quite a biased source, no? This doesn't provide evidence that these differences are biological. Boys are much more likely to exercise than girls due to social norms: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10478357/.

New comment by greygoo222 in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

greygoo222 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:45:20 +0000

You can debate what policies are the most fair without calling trans women "men."