• kanzure proposed using job titles as a reputational-currency mechanism to pay open-source contributors, in a GitHub comment on bitcoin-dot-org issue #1606.  
• Peter Todd released a method for cryptographically “carbon-dating” Internet Archive items with OpenTimestamps, and kanzure successfully demonstrated it on the missing hplusroadmap log from 2016-09-18 after the Archive had flagged it as spam.  
• Discussion of ultra-large UV-cured polymer bubbles as lightweight space telescopes: key challenges identified were preventing cracks during slow expansion, achieving UV-triggered opacity shifts for controlled curing, and generating precise parabolic shapes via asymmetric pressure gradients or internal fans.  
• kanzure linked to a “gene-therapy wishlist” curated by earonesty, now mirrored on diyhpl.us/diyhpluswiki/genetic-modifications/.  
• A METAL GWAS FAQ was critiqued for oversimplifying designer-baby intelligence claims, emphasizing that parental-phenotype confounding can negate expected cognitive gains from single-gene edits.  
• kanzure shared a mental-math hack blog post describing how to use small pseudo-random-number generators inside one’s head for quick cryptographic nonces or memory exercises.