Hacker News on Monday, 8 December 2025

Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.

Screenshot of blog.jim-nielsen.com: Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help

Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help (blog.jim-nielsen.com)

769 points by ArmageddonIt 10 months ago | 307 comments

Jim Nielsen's blog post criticizing the UI trend of putting an icon on every menu item, using Google Sheets menus as an example.

ui-design menus icons google-sheets

Screenshot of gricha.dev: The highest quality codebase

The highest quality codebase (gricha.dev)

603 points by Gricha 10 months ago | 371 comments

Blog post by Greg Pstrucha describing an experiment in which Claude repeatedly reworked an app's codebase to make it the "highest quality", and what happened.

claude ai-coding-agents code-quality llm-experiments

Screenshot of office365itpros.com: Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices

Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices (office365itpros.com)

443 points by taubek 10 months ago | 520 comments

Office 365 for IT Pros blog post by Tony Redmond reporting Microsoft's price increases for Office 365 and Microsoft 365 licenses.

microsoft-365 office-365 licensing pricing

Screenshot of confluent.io: IBM to acquire Confluent

IBM to acquire Confluent (confluent.io)

427 points by abd12 10 months ago | 339 comments

Confluent blog post announcing it has entered a definitive agreement to be acquired by IBM, pending regulatory approvals.

confluent ibm acquisition apache-kafka

Screenshot of jepsen.io: Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1

Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1 (jepsen.io)

412 points by aphyr 10 months ago | 151 comments

Jepsen analysis by Kyle Kingsbury of NATS JetStream 2.12.1, finding lost writes from file corruption, power failures, and lazy fsync behavior.

jepsen nats jetstream distributed-systems

Screenshot of nesbitt.io: GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst

GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst (nesbitt.io)

408 points by robin_reala 10 months ago | 236 comments

Andrew Nesbitt's blog post arguing GitHub Actions functions as a package manager lacking lockfiles, integrity hashes, and other supply chain safeguards.

github-actions package-managers supply-chain-security dependency-resolution

Screenshot of nicchan.me: The fuck off contact page

The fuck off contact page (nicchan.me)

381 points by OuterVale 10 months ago | 146 comments

Blog post by Nic Chan about being asked to build a 'fuck off contact page' that discourages users from contacting a business, and how to push back.

contact-forms ux-design dark-patterns client-work

Screenshot of martinalderson.com: Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?

Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?(martinalderson.com)

376 points by martinald 10 months ago | 584 comments

Blog post by Martin Alderson arguing that agentic AI coding has dramatically cut the cost of building software and will transform the industry by 2026.

agentic-coding ai-coding-assistants software-development-costs software-economics

Screenshot of cnbc.com: Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros (cnbc.com)

342 points by gniting 10 months ago | 364 comments

CNBC report that David Ellison's Paramount Skydance is launching a hostile all-cash $30-per-share bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, going directly to shareholders.

paramount-skydance warner-bros-discovery netflix mergers-acquisitions

Screenshot of www3.nhk.or.jp: Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued

Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued (www3.nhk.or.jp)

341 points by lattis 10 months ago | 155 comments

NHK World news page reporting a strong earthquake off northern Japan and tsunami warnings, later downgraded to advisories, for Hokkaido and Tohoku coasts.

earthquake tsunami japan hokkaido