• A Washington Post article on Alexandra Elbakyan’s 50-million-paper Sci-Hub archive triggered discussion of the $7.5 trillion statutory-damage claim ($150 k per article) and the broader open-access debate; participants mocked the Post’s “Life is a bitter mystery” justification for paywalls.  
• kanzure linked a PLoS ONE–related paper, “Open Access Could Transform Drug Discovery: A Case Study of JQ1,” arguing that freely shared chemical probes accelerate therapeutic innovation.  
• Sci-Hub (sci-hub.io) and Library Genesis (gen.lib.rus.ec) were highlighted as the current go-to mirrors for bypassing paywalls; kanzure noted that Sci-Hub integration had existed in paperbot’s source code for years.  
• A Reddit/YouTube demo of deep-neural-network-based autonomous quadcopter navigation in forest environments was shared, prompting jokes that the researchers were “paid to hike and fly drones.”  
• Google Japan’s “Furikku” directional-angle keyboard (an April-Fools’ project) was debated: chris_99 presented it as a faster input device, maaku doubted its speed advantage, and fenn suggested e-ink keycaps for adaptive layouts.  
• kanzure reported that the Public Library of Science (PLoS) generates roughly $45 M in annual revenue, underscoring the economics of gold open-access publishing.  
• A newcomer asked for guidance on mastering computational modeling of nanoelectronics and nanofluidics to “invent new cures,” prompting skepticism about the relevance of solid-state physics to drug discovery.