- The Odin (Josiah Zayner) announced a beta-test “frog genetic-engineering kit” that delivers an IGF-1 gene therapy to frogs, reportedly doubling their size; the kit is offered as an accessible way for hobbyists to practice animal genetic engineering and is open for beta testers via a Google form.  
- A Smithsonian article was shared noting that fathers pass more genetic information through sperm than previously thought, prompting jokes about post-testicular CRISPR editing of sperm.  
- eleitl proposed using 8-bit integer voxel grids on GPUs (with bitmasking for variable resolution) to represent molecular structures, aiming to exploit new int8 tensor-core throughput (44 TOPS on recent cards) for molecular modeling.  
- archels linked a critique titled “HPC is dying and MPI is killing it,” arguing that traditional high-performance-computing paradigms are becoming obsolete; the piece was noted to be at least several years old.  
- kanzure relayed the SEC’s rejection of a Bitcoin ETF proposal that sought to use an unregulated spot exchange as its price source, summarizing the regulatory setback in a tweet thread.  
- xeb surfaced a paper on using chaotic-orbit targeting and recurrence techniques for low-energy lunar transfers, illustrating ongoing interest in advanced orbital-mechanics hacks.  
- kanzure also posted a link to metafluidics.org, an open repository for microfluidic device designs, aligning with the channel’s focus on open-source biotech hardware.