# Summary of IRC Log from August 5, 2016

* A new MIT and DARPA project was shared that successfully packed LIDAR sensors onto a single chip, which could significantly impact autonomous vehicle development and potentially drive down costs of these sensors.

* A discussion occurred about a retracted DNA sequencing paper that used electrical conductance measurements of DNA polymerase; the retraction happened because results could not be reproduced and authors couldn't provide complete raw data.

* A Bitcoin gathering transcript was completed and published, containing approximately 42,000 words across 80 pages documenting three days of discussions between Bitcoin developers and miners.

* A collaborative reverse-engineering effort of Pokemon Go's anti-cheating token was discussed, noting how the community was using tools like IDA for decompiling and Frida for runtime data instrumentation, with most work happening in stripped native code.

* An observation was made about how the Pokemon Go reverse-engineering community operated in a more continuous "hivemind" fashion compared to traditional open source projects, with contributors rotating throughout the day while maintaining progress.