• A critical OAuth2 flaw in MtGox’s implementation enabled account hijacking and was predicted to affect Coinbase as well, underscoring systemic risks in cryptocurrency exchange authentication.  
• The channel’s paperbot automatically mirrors paywalled academic PDFs to a public directory (http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/), creating an open-access archive for transhumanist and AI research literature.  
• Popcorn Linux, a multikernel OS that assigns one Linux kernel per CPU core and uses a custom messaging layer, was discussed as a modern approach to hot-swapping CPUs and transparent thread migration across heterogeneous hardware.  
• Participants compared Popcorn Linux to earlier distributed-OS projects like OpenMosix and PVM, concluding that Ethernet backplanes and the global kernel lock (BKL) historically limited scalability on many-core systems.  
• Git-annex was recommended as a symlink-based alternative to storing large binary PDFs in Git, preventing repository bloat while retaining version history for open-source science projects.  
• Beeminder (https://www.beeminder.com) was proposed as a self-binding tool for researchers to combat procrastination by staking money on missed academic deadlines.  
• Early Bitcoin mining anecdotes described attackers laundering stolen AWS EC2 credits into cryptocurrency, illustrating early exploits in cloud-resource arbitrage.  
• Personal stories emphasized that unconventional career paths and lack of formal credentials do not preclude meaningful contributions to open-source science and transhumanist research.