This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 9, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

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