- The community is attempting to rescue the NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS): only 26 064 of its documents have been mirrored to archive.org so far, and no participant reports having a complete private backup.  
- Paperbot, the channel’s automated paper-fetching bot, received a SOCKS-proxy patch from a3nm (https://github.com/a3nm/paperbot) to improve access behind restrictive networks; kanzure proposed a simpler one-line fix using the Python-requests library’s built-in proxy argument.  
- A request for the PLOS ONE article “Willingness to Share Research Data” (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026828) triggered an HTTP 500 error in paperbot, highlighting ongoing reliability issues with the bot.  
- The diyhpluswiki was updated with a new page listing venues—LessWrong, Wikipedia Reference Desk, and others—where users can request paywalled papers, underscoring the channel’s open-access advocacy.  
- Freenode suffered repeated netsplits and suspected DDoS attacks, disrupting real-time collaboration but not causing loss of substantive discussion.  
- One participant sought evidence-based vitamins or supplements that could temporarily offset cognitive and metabolic deficits from acute sleep deprivation, aiming for a practical intervention before an upcoming workday.