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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

### [11 nanoseconds per word: Ridiculously Over-Optimizing Anagrams](<https://wiredream.com/anagram-fun/>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: wiredream.com

Published: 2026-11-05T07:37:35+00:00

Points: 19 · Comments: [1](<https://lobste.rs/s/hrsyjf>)

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

Also discussed: [Hacker News · 5 comments](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50363353>)

### [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: 146 · Comments: [63](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50376313>)

### [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: 91 · Comments: [67](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50379773>)

### [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: 141 · 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: 99 · Comments: [41](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50375691>)

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

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

### [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>)

### [I wish tech companies knew more about me](<https://rakhim.exotext.com/i-wish-tech-companies-knew-more-about-me>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: rakhim.exotext.com

Published: 2026-11-05T13:40:52+00:00

Points: 59 · Comments: [47](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50378942>)

### [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: 179 · Comments: [7](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50379704>)

### [You'll need nerves of steel to work with AI agents](<https://orchidfiles.com/youll-need-nerves-of-steel-to-work-with-ai-agents/>)

Source: Hacker News · Domain: orchidfiles.com

Published: 2026-11-05T00:01:30+00:00

Points: 56 · Comments: [77](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50373149>)