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12.9.25 | Icons in menus, AI progress steady, IBM acquires Confluent
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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 9, 2025.
Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196688
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- (00:00) - Intro
- (00:20) - Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help
- (01:28) - Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
- (02:44) - IBM to acquire Confluent
- (03:54) - Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices
- (05:12) - Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1
- (06:20) - Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
- (07:33) - Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued
- (08:34) - Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
- (09:41) - The universal weight subspace hypothesis
- (10:56) - Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?
- (12:16) - Outro
Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196688
Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
https://andyljones.com/posts/horses.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46199723
IBM to acquire Confluent
https://www.confluent.io/blog/ibm-to-acquire-confluent/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192130
Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices
https://office365itpros.com/2025/12/08/microsoft-365-pricing-increase/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192186
Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1
https://jepsen.io/analyses/nats-2.12.1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196105
Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192459
Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251209_02/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192846
Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-jailbroken-kindle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194337
The universal weight subspace hypothesis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05117
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46199623
Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?
https://martinalderson.com/posts/has-the-cost-of-software-just-dropped-90-percent/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196228
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