- A new diffusion-model-based system for mechanical design (https://dgdm-robot.github.io/) was highlighted; it currently generates functional robot grippers and is expected to generalize to other mechanisms, with confirmation that the resulting parts are fabricated in the real world rather than simulated.  
- Discussion of extreme model compression centered on 1-bit quantization, with links to a Hacker News thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39535800) and the corresponding paper “The Era of 1-bit LLMs” (https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17764); participants debated whether measured performance merely reflects sparsely encoded features that survive truncation.  
- A lament was raised about the decay of open 3-D model repositories, citing the RepRap wiki’s “Printable part sources” page as an example of link rot; Yeggi was offered as a surviving search alternative.  
- A long-form essay on the history and future of energy abundance, “Making Energy Too Cheap to Meter” (https://worksinprogress.co/issue/making-energy-too-cheap-to-meter/), was shared as relevant background for hardware-intensive transhumanist projects.