Hacker News for Dec 8, 2025

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Today's topics:
-Anthropic's alignment-first approach
-Guardrails for reliable agents
-Redis-powered GPU load balancing
-IBM to acquire Confluent
-Ultra-compact Linux revives PCs
-Unix game teaches ls
-Momentum tactics for research
-Painting colors proxy GDP

-https://www.confluent.io/blog/ibm-to-acquire-confluent/
-https://www.off-policy.com/alignment-is-capability/
-https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm
-https://steerlabs.substack.com/p/confident-idiot-problem
-https://12days.cmdchallenge.com/
-http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/12/optimize-for-momentum.html
-https://galileo.ai/blog/how-we-boosted-gpu-utilization-by-40-with-redis-lua
-https://www.damnsmalllinux.org/


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