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The sloppification of peptides

Hacker News·27 days ago
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Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts, The Reverse of a Framed Painting (1670) Anyone who’s not been living under a rock knows that we’re in full peptide mania. For the uninitiated, “peptides” are drugs which are made of short chains of amino acids, unlike most drugs which are small molecules. The difference is mostly academic except that you can’t take peptides orally for the most part, as they’re just protein chains, and your stomach is very good at digesting protein and turning it back into amino acids which your body has other uses for! So peptides have to be either sprayed into your nose, or injected. Hence the (probably apocryphal) stories of “peptide parties” in SF where people go around injecting each other. Anyway. Trying to buy gray market peptides is now a strange and difficult experience. With the advent of agentic AI coding tools, anyone can make a very pretty, convincing-looking website.…

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