303: DTF:HN for October 30, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for October 30, 2026. Featuring: Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance, We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4, How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole?, Gilgamesh by Simon Armitage review – an ancient epic is brilliantly translated, Cuis: The Modern Smalltalk-80, and more.

Stories covered:

1. Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 0:31)
2. We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 4:23)
3. How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole?
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 7:49)
4. Gilgamesh by Simon Armitage review – an ancient epic is brilliantly translated
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 11:52)
5. Cuis: The Modern Smalltalk-80
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 15:45)
6. I'm so bad at billiards that I ended up in the hyperbolic plane [video]
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 19:07)
7. Herdr has released native app
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 21:46)
8. Astroterm: A Planetarium for Your Terminal
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 24:52)
9. We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 27:54)
10. Artificial Analysis v5 and the benchmarker's dilemma
    (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 31:09)