• Sci-Hub’s new mirror URL scheme was reverse-engineered: “http://cyber.sci-hub.cc/” + base64(DOI) + “/” + sanitized-author-last-name + year + “.pdf”; an older pattern uses the first four hex characters of MD5(DOI) plus the DOI itself (with “@” replacing “/”) to fetch PDFs without captchas.

• A 50 TB Sci-Hub mirror torrent is available on libgen but crawls at ~10 kb/s; participants weighed AWS clusters, Seychelles colocation, IPFS, Siacoin, and mailing LTO-9 tapes as acceleration tactics.

• The channel compiled an up-to-date list of active Sci-Hub sub-domains (cyber, dabamirror, dacemirror, moscow, ocean, ololo, secure, twin, www, zeze) and confirmed that some are Cloudflare-fronted while others resolve to 80.82.77.83.

• Sci-Hub’s captcha was identified as the open-source SecurImage PHP library with a fixed English word list and custom font, prompting discussion of training a neural solver given unlimited challenge/response pairs.

• A decentralized, volunteer-run mirror network was proposed as a legal shield to replace Sci-Hub’s single-gateway model, with gradual traffic ramp-up and IP rotation to avoid single-point liability.

• A speculative “time-machine-assisted computation” protocol was outlined: commit to a function f, read a future value x, then write f(x) back; iterating converges on a fixed point, enabling one-shot Bitcoin nonce mining or √N calculation.

• The von Kármán–Gabrielli diagram was introduced to compare transport efficiency across modalities (horses, jets, hyperloop, sub-orbital rockets), fueling debate on frictionless mag-lev, evacuated tubes, and reusable boosters for 30-minute New York–Tokyo hops.

• MIT’s “Hardware Architectures for Deep Neural Learning” tutorial slides (ISCA 2017) and the ChemPrint open-source SPE/TLC drug-testing kit crowdfunding campaign were shared as open-science resources.

• Participants lamented the absence of a public, machine-readable DOI → citation graph; PubMed Central, arXiv/bioRxiv torrents, and Common Crawl open-access datasets were floated as raw material to build one.

• Twist Bioscience’s DNA synthesis process was clarified to use inkjet deposition rather than electrochemical detritylation or microfluidic valves, contradicting earlier channel speculation.