- Canada is reportedly one of the few entities still funding research into diamondoid mechanosynthesis, a key pathway toward atomically precise manufacturing and advanced nanotechnology.  
- A Nature paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05742-0) claims room-temperature superconductivity at 21 °C and 10 kbar in nitrogen-doped lutetium hydride; participants note the lab’s prior fraud allegations and treat the claim with skepticism.  
- The Relativity Space Terran 1 orbital launch attempt was live-tracked in-channel; discussion centered on the company’s iterative, “venture-capital-style” approach to rocketry.  
- A 403-blocked PDF titled “Universal Psychometrics” (https://users.dsic.upv.es/~flip/papers/TR-upsycho2012.pdf) was sought; the community pointed to publicly available copies of the same paper on universal measures of cognitive ability.  
- diyhpl.us/wiki now requires credentials for search; the fallback advice is to clone the git repo and grep locally or use GitHub’s search interface.