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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 9, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(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 Helphttps://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196688Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is suddenhttps://andyljones.com/posts/horses.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46199723IBM to acquire Confluenthttps://www.confluent.io/blog/ibm-to-acquire-confluent/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192130Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license priceshttps://office365itpros.com/2025/12/08/microsoft-365-pricing-increase/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192186Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1https://jepsen.io/analyses/nats-2.12.1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196105Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Broshttps://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192459Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issuedhttps://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251209_02/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192846Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindlehttps://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-jailbroken-kindlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194337The universal weight subspace hypothesishttps://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05117https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46199623Has 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 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.