HN Daily Digest

Hacker News – 09 Dec 2025


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Table of Contents
  • AI and Machine Learning Breakthroughs
    • The universal weight subspace hypothesis
    • Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
    • Epsilon: A WASM virtual machine written in Go
    • Design and User Experience
      • Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help
      • No ARIA is better than bad ARIA
      • Retail and Robotics
        • Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far
        • IBM to acquire Confluent
        • Historical and Cultural Insights
          • The Lost Machine Automats and Self-Service Cafeterias of NYC (2023)
          • A thousand-year-long composition turns 25 (2024)
          • Industry Trends and Perspectives
            • Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices
            • Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?
            • ...more
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