- A Washington Post op-ed calling for a moratorium on human-germline gene editing was mocked for its fear of “rogue scientists” while ignoring China’s rapid progress.  
- The torrent-docker project (https://github.com/mafintosh/torrent-docker) was highlighted as “mad science” for enabling real-time booting of remote Docker images via BitTorrent.  
- IPFS tooling was discussed, including Firefox and Chrome extensions and git-remote-ipfs, but participants noted the network’s current lack of durability guarantees.  
- Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) were spotlighted as a key technology for distributed systems, with pointers to active work in the Riak community and researchers like russelldb and cmeiklejohn.  
- Homomorphic encryption was briefly explained and linked as a potential building block for privacy-preserving computation.  
- Stuart Kim’s PLOS AMA on sequencing supercentenarians to uncover longevity genes was shared (https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/3k8br7/).  
- Scaling Bitcoin conference live-streams were announced at https://youtube.com/channel/UCmwaDulmQtX-H8FOSQTKqMg, and a review PDF of the talks was circulated.  
- nmz787 demonstrated FPGA control from Python without vendor binaries, marking a step toward fully open-source FPGA workflows.