# Summary of IRC Log (August 17, 2016)

The IRC log from August 17, 2016 contains minimal substantive discussion, but includes:

- Updates to the DIY H+ Wiki were made by Michael Grube, with commits being shared by user gnusha (https://secure.diyhpl.us/cgit/diyhpluswiki/commit/)

- A discussion about reading and organizing IRC logs, with user poppingtonic sharing a script to make reading logs easier: https://gist.github.com/poppingtonic/72d8ddabcdf7a7be0d56ff6ae7bdccd2

- User thesnark mentioned they were working on manually reading and summarizing historical logs (back to 2008) for the wiki, rather than using automated summarization techniques

- A brief mention of NP-hard computational problems and their long timeouts before reconsidering approaches

- A security warning about Bitcoin was shared (https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4y8m76/0130_binary_safety_warning_bitcoinorg/d6luukw), with subsequent discussion questioning the effectiveness of the security measures described

- References to libopencm3 and pyNCS/pyosc (http://inincs.github.io/pyNCS/general/pyosc.html) as potential tools for hardware projects