- A short film at http://davidwfilms.com/ was praised for its “considered design” of robots, contrasting with the visual overload of Transformers and provoking an emotional reaction from viewers.  
- Participants debated whether Facebook homogenizes users’ emotions and attention, with one member describing how the platform pulls them into emotionally charged but ultimately unproductive topics.  
- The Python package “pip-accel” (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip-accel) was shared as a drop-in replacement for pip that caches compiled wheels and avoids repeatedly scanning PyPI, dramatically speeding up installs.  
- The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced a public discussion on Bitcoin derivatives regulation; the link circulated was http://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/pr7010-14.  
- A proof-of-concept exploit for the “Shellshock” Bash vulnerability delivered via DHCP was highlighted on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8369443).  
- Paperbot was used to retrieve the ACS Nano paper “Graphene Nanoribbons as a Platform for Optoelectronics” (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/ipdf/10.1021/nn301164a) and served the full text at http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/66a664e782d7a581afcd0a00a9889b99.txt.