10.30.26 | Patrick Stewart dies, Mistral Large 4 weights released, Binance hacker 1029 steals 5.6B

Hacker News Highlights · Oct 30, 2026 · 11m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 30, 2026.

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(00:00) - Intro

(00:15) - Patrick Stewart has died

(01:08) - We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4

(02:21) - Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance

(03:29) - LLM Voice

(04:29) - H.264 Is Magic (2016)

(05:39) - We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry

(06:45) - If IPv4 were land

(07:44) - Herdr has released native app

(08:42) - A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W

(09:49) - What we know so…