- Discussion of semiconductor process-node terminology: “7 nm” and “5 nm” do not literally describe transistor length but are marketing labels; the more informative metric is transistors per square millimetre (MTr/mm²), with links to Wikipedia pages detailing 7 nm and 5 nm node densities.  
- Open-source nanopore fabrication: nmz787 shared a Nature Protocols paper (s41596-019-0255-2) and the accompanying TimpLab “Making Solid-State Nanopores Accessible” YouTube video, plus the lab’s CBD research page (tcossalab.net/research/cbd/).  
- Critique of commercial nanopore setups: CaptHindsight noted that some groups still rely on Windows-centric protocols and National Instruments ADC/DAC boards, lack integrated low-noise amplifiers, and have patented what appears to be a natural dielectric-breakdown process.  
- Lightning-network research: kanzure posted a link to the pre-print “Discreet Log Contracts Channels and Integration in the Lightning Network” (offchain-dlc.pdf on GitHub) describing off-chain DLC construction.  
- Demonpore project status: nmz787 reported that the Demonpore team resurfaced ~a month earlier expressing intent to work on coronavirus identification using their nanopore platform.  
- High-throughput networking thought experiment: lsneff speculated on saturating network interfaces by running a 128-thread CPU bare-metal, pinning each core to an actor and using message-passing instead of a conventional OS.