Long time no talk! Just saw some wild stuff on Hacker News today, figured I'd give you the quick rundown.

Patrick Stewart has died

First off, super sad news, Patrick Stewart died. Man, Captain Picard, Professor X... legend. What was wild though, in the comments, people were talking about how his passing made them think about AI and how we fear it, and then somehow it spiraled into a debate about how even poor people today live better than medieval kings. Like, totally off-topic but kinda deep for a comments section, you know? Check it out.

Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance

Then, get this, Binance got hit for a massive $5.6 *billion* dollars! Yeah, *billion*. Sounds like it was probably an inside job, or at least someone with way too much access. People in the comments were saying if one engineer can just walk away with that much, the company's security was already totally messed up. Wild stuff. Here's the link.

We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4

On the tech side, Mistral, that AI company, just open-sourced their new 'Large 4' model. That's a big deal for folks who want to run powerful AI locally. What's interesting is how quickly people in the comments brought up how politics can already influence these models, like asking about Tiananmen Square and getting different answers from different AIs. Shows you how deep that stuff runs. Read more here.

Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5

And this one's mind-blowing: someone built a *functioning RISC-V CPU inside an LLM*! Like, a real computer running *inside* an AI. It's called 'Qwenputer'. People were saying this really shuts down the argument that LLMs are 'just predicting the next word' because, well, a CPU isn't just predicting words, right? It's actually computing! Super cool project.

Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model

Speaking of AI, there's some buzz about Claude Code, that coding assistant. Apparently, it's constantly sending transcripts of what its background agents are doing back to its main model. Kinda raises some privacy eyebrows, you know? Commenters were worried about what other info it could be pulling out. Definitely something to keep an eye on. The details are here.

DoorDash to acquire Instacart

In business news, DoorDash is buying Instacart. So, get ready for even fewer options for food and grocery delivery. People were griping in the comments about how DoorDash drivers can be jerks and the whole tipping culture thing. Classic delivery app drama, but it's a big consolidation. Official announcement.

Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue

Oh, and guess what? Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet's total money. Wild, right? Commenters were saying AI has totally changed their ad spend – some companies dropped Google Ads to zero because AI platforms are doing the job now. Big shift in the tech world! Check out the numbers.

Anyway, that's the gist of it. Talk soon!