- WASI (WebAssembly System Interface) is criticized for conflating a browser-style WebAPI ABI with a traditional OS-like ABI; participants argue it should provide a true filesystem abstraction rather than merely “accessing host filesystems.”  
- No open-source Verilog implementation of a full JVM appears to exist on GitHub; historical Java processors (e.g., picoJava, Jazelle) are noted, but they rely on software fallbacks for complex operations.  
- Hardware acceleration of WebAssembly is discussed: adding custom instructions for bounds-checked memory operations could improve both performance and code density, though current superscalar CPUs already handle these checks efficiently.  
- Kagi.com is introduced as a paid-per-query search engine, prompting debate over whether crawling/indexing or query serving is the dominant cost; Google’s 400-result limit is cited as evidence that queries are treated as expensive.  
- BioBricks (partsregistry.org) is reported unreachable and its site derided as PR-heavy with no clear download links for actual genetic parts; iGEM’s parts.igem.org is suggested as a working alternative repository.