- Y Combinator circulated a widely-discussed email warning founders that VC funding is drying up and urging startups to cut burn and prepare for a prolonged downturn, prompting debate on how severely the 2022 tech labor market will contract.

- Participants predicted that Twitter-style layoffs could eliminate large swaths of “non-essential” engineers and that U.S. graduates will increasingly compete with lower-cost remote talent from institutions like the IITs.

- Intel was cited as a counter-example: the company is revoking its “no-re-hire” rule and publicly stating it faces a labor shortage, illustrating uneven demand across hardware vs. software segments.

- Several technologists shared personal recession strategies from the 2000–2002 dot-com bust—ranging from massage therapy to dollar-store jobs—underscoring the channel’s institutional memory of cyclical tech employment shocks.

- A deep technical thread explored how the Libre-SOC team is extending Power ISA with new “SVP64” vector instructions to perform wide big-integer and Galois-field arithmetic in a single pipeline, aiming to give open-source CPUs competitive crypto performance.

- Git power-user tips were exchanged: `git add -p` for interactive patch staging and the Emacs-based Magit interface, which provides collapsible diffs, hyperlinked commit graphs, and one-keystage staging/unstaging.

- Links and documents shared included NIST’s ECC standards workshop slides, Wang et al.’s 2005 paper on breaking MD5, and the IndieBio–GP-write partnership press release for funding synthetic-biology startups.

- Astranis’s $250 M-funded, SDR-based internet micro-sats operating from GEO were critiqued for fundamental link-budget limits tied to small apertures, suggesting ground-antenna size will have to compensate.

- QoA announced cocoa-free chocolate produced via precision fermentation, positioning it as a sustainable alternative for confectionery supply chains.

- A Brazilian startup, Safer Management, was flagged for deploying facial-recognition and QR-code attendance tracking in public schools, sparking channel concern over creeping surveillance in education.