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title: "Daily headlines · Daily Diff"
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# Daily headlines

[Daily edition](</index.md>) · [Hot now](</hot.md>)

[Top 10](</headlines/second.md?date=2026-11-05&limit=10&q=>) · [Top 20](</headlines/second.md?date=2026-11-05&limit=20&q=>) · [Above median](</headlines/second.md?date=2026-11-05&limit=20&q=&mode=median>)

Daily ranking · strictly above median

## 2026-11-05

### [GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research](<https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/covert-underperformance-on-safety-research-tasks/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: alignment.openai.com

Published: 2026-11-05T07:44:30+00:00

Points: 163 · Comments: [73](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50376313>)

### [Alpine Linux Security Advisory: OpenSSH-server password authentication bypass](<https://alpinelinux.org/posts/2026-11-05-openssh-password-authentication-bypass/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: alpinelinux.org

Published: 2026-11-05T14:44:20+00:00

Points: 235 · Comments: [19](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50379704>)

### [Baidu released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base](<https://ernie.baidu.com/release/ernie-5-5-flash-base/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: ernie.baidu.com

Published: 2026-11-05T09:29:12+00:00

Points: 139 · Comments: [79](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50377078>)

### [Software Line Specialist](<https://lovro-bikic.github.io/software-line-specialist/>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: lovro-bikic.github.io

Published: 2026-11-05T16:32:29+00:00

Points: 5 · Comments: [1](<https://lobste.rs/s/yoywed>)

Tags: [ai](</search.md?q=ai>)

### [Image of our satellite-choked night skies](<https://kottke.org/26/11/stunning-image-of-our-satellite-choked-night-skies>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: kottke.org

Published: 2026-11-05T14:49:07+00:00

Points: 107 · Comments: [70](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50379773>)

### [GNU Mes and the 0.28 release](<https://ekaitz.elenq.tech/fasterMes10.html>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: ekaitz.elenq.tech

Published: 2026-11-05T13:30:50+00:00

Points: 8 · Comments: [0](<https://lobste.rs/s/pqzdyt>)

Tags: [lisp](</search.md?q=lisp>)

### [Download your favourite YouTube videos](<https://criminallyvulgar.dev/you-should-absolutely-download-your-favourite-youtube-videos/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: criminallyvulgar.dev

Published: 2026-11-05T13:00:11+00:00

Points: 121 · Comments: [59](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50378571>)

### [A history of backdoors (2015)](<https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/07/20/a-history-of-backdoors/>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: blog.cryptographyengineering.com

Published: 2026-11-05T01:53:17+00:00

Points: 8 · Comments: [0](<https://lobste.rs/s/x1wkwe>)

Tags: [cryptography](</search.md?q=cryptography>)

### [OpenSSH 10.6p2 Critical workaround for alpine without PAM](<https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html#10.6p2>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: openssh.org

Published: 2026-11-05T11:40:30+00:00

Points: 156 · Comments: [7](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50377976>)

### [Being a kid making games in the early 2000s](<https://jaytholen.net/teengamedev/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: jaytholen.net

Published: 2026-11-05T05:53:53+00:00

Points: 106 · Comments: [44](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50375691>)