• The channel’s wiki (diyhpl.us/diyhpluswiki) was updated with a new reference on “balloon hashing” from Dan Boneh’s July 2016 Bitcoin-developer transcript and a typo-fix in the Simons Institute pairing-cryptography notes.  
• ybit highlighted the build-automation tool “tup” (gittup.org/tup/) as worth tracking for reproducible open-source hardware and software workflows.  
• chris_99 noted that an EM-Drive test is scheduled to fly in space soon, prompting fenn to question whether the device has yet earned such an expensive validation attempt.  
• abetusk circulated “Ten Open Questions for the Techno-Optimist” (digitopoly.org, Aug 2016) as a discussion prompt on unresolved challenges facing radical technological progress.  
• kanzure linked several open-source micro-shelter projects by Paul Elkins (elkinsdiy.com), including a micro-survival-gear kit and a bike-towed Airstream camper, alongside Luis’s open-hardware microfluidics lab (luis.labfab.cc).  
• A cluster of papers from the MSU “Adami Lab” was shared, covering digital evolution, evolvability trade-offs, information-theoretic origins of life, and evolved virtual creatures—emphasizing the problem of “premature convergence” limiting open-ended complexity.  
• kanzure and ybit debated whether Turing-complete systems like Conway’s Game of Life can truly exhibit open-ended evolution (OEE), referencing Tim Taylor’s OEE-2 abstracts and the claim that fixed-rule simulations cannot indefinitely generate novel emergents.  
• ybit posted Matt Blaze’s “Cell-Tapping” article (crypto.com) detailing how law enforcement tracks cellular phones, flagged as relevant to privacy and security discussions in DIY bio/tech circles.  
• The Algorithmic Botany publications archive (algorithmicbotany.org/papers/) was surfaced as a resource for procedural modeling and generative-design techniques applicable to synthetic biology and morphogenetic engineering.