• Global semiconductor supply constraints were highlighted by a Hacker News post noting insufficient chip fabrication capacity, prompting discussion about Huawei reportedly achieving a 7 nm process node and whether ASML continues to supply them with EUV lithography equipment.

• The open-source molecular-design tool NanoEngineer-1 was mentioned as a platform for atom-level CAD; participants sought guidance on how to “build atoms” within it and were referred to the “atomcad” community for recent usage experience.

• Blockstream’s Codex32 project—a pen-and-paper-compatible Shamir Secret Sharing scheme for cryptographic key backup—was shared, along with a link to purchase a printed instruction booklet that walks users through the manual computation steps.

• AtomicSemi’s progress in low-cost semiconductor fabrication was noted via a Twitter video showing ion-beam milling as part of their effort to create small-scale, open-access chip-making tools.

• Interest was expressed in obtaining hands-on access to the Falcon-180 large language model, indicating ongoing curiosity within the channel about cutting-edge open-weights AI systems.