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# Daily headlines

[Top 10](/headlines/second?date=2026-10-28&limit=10&q=&appearance=dark)[Top 20](/headlines/second?date=2026-10-28&limit=20&q=&appearance=dark)[Above median](/headlines/second?date=2026-10-28&limit=20&q=&mode=median&appearance=dark)

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1.   2026-10-28
2.   [2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269492)11

     [碁の国: Play Chess as Town Building](https://gonokuni.plpl.town/)

     HNgonokuni.plpl.town5 hours ago

3.   [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267494)16

     [Free daily JSON feed of Shanghai government subsidy notices](https://github.com/ZhongGheart/china-policy-data)

     HNgithub.com10 hours ago

4.   [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50263967)17

     [Popcorn 1.0 Released: Moving from AtomVM to Full Erlang VM](https://swmansion.com/blog/popcorn-1-0-moving-from-atom-vm-to-otp-beam/)

     HNswmansion.com15 hours ago

5.   [4](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271032)8

     [Spain train crash: 'At least 10 dead' in high-speed collision](https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/spain-train-crash-madrid-latest-deaths-victims-807kwv23l)

     HNthetimes.com35 minutes ago

6.   [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268907)10

     [F](https://f.com/)

     HNf.com6 hours ago

7.   [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271088)5

     [Billion-query-per-second lookup tables in C++](https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/26/billion-query-per-second-lookup-tables-in-c/)

     HNlemire.me27 minutes ago

8.   [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50270973)5

     [Suffering as a Feature](https://blog.codinghorror.com/suffering-as-a-feature/)

     HNblog.codinghorror.com48 minutes ago

9.   [1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269746)6

     [Satellites show some of the strongest evidence the AMOC is weakening](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2595629-satellites-show-some-of-the-strongest-evidence-the-amoc-is-weakening/)

     HNnewscientist.com4 hours ago

10.  [0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268548)11

     [Emacs Turns 50](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1145399/emacs-turns-50/)

     HNtechnologyreview.com7 hours ago

11.  [7](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265225)5

     [Anduril Partners with Qualcomm to Build Laptops on US Soil](https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/military-drone-outfit-anduril-partners-with-qualcomm-to-build-laptops-on-us-soil-with-new-bluechip-venture-defense-contractor-targets-a-100-percent-domestic-supply-chain-in-the-future)

     HNtomshardware.com13 hours ago