- Plexus is marketing a 21-DOF hand-tracking glove for VR/AR and robotics; participants debate whether this count is accurate, noting that standard biomechanical models credit the human hand with 27 DOF when the wrist is included.  
- A StackExchange link (https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/30857/does-the-human-hand-have-27-degrees-of-freedom) is shared to clarify the discrepancy, highlighting the thumb’s extra DOF and the exclusion of wrist motion in Plexus’s claim.  
- kanzure posts a link to the Kubernetes persistent-volume controller source code (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/ec2e767e59395376fa191d7c56a74f53936b7653/pkg/controller/volume/persistentvolume/pv_controller.go), likely for discussion on containerized lab-automation or data-pipeline infrastructure.  
- adlai references a PNAS paper (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1717595115) titled “Thermodynamic limits of energy harvesting from outgoing thermal radiation,” suggesting interest in novel energy-harvesting schemes for low-power wearables or sensors.