- Sci-Hub is framed as “necessary, effective civil disobedience” in a Hacker News discussion linked by kanzure, highlighting its role in open-access science.  
- A Reddit thread on r/technology about Sci-Hub is noted as the place where torrents of the full archive were originally link-dropped (user “blindangel”), although the comment was later removed.  
- kanzure shares aws-jobber, a GitHub project that automates torrenting tasks on Amazon EC2, as a practical tool for large-scale data distribution.  
- The Bitcoin Core team announces the first successful Zero-Knowledge Contingent Payment (ZKCP) on mainnet, demonstrating trustless sale of information using zero-knowledge proofs.  
- tlsnotary.org is circulated as a tool for cryptographically proving that a TLS web session occurred without revealing the content, relevant for verifiable data purchases.  
- nmz787_i proposes trademarking “SUPER-ORGANIC” exclusively for GMO foods, sparking brief discussion on branding engineered biology.  
- A new participant (ppk / Sean Hobin) arrives via the nootropics subreddit and is directed to the channel’s public logs and wiki for background.