Hackernews posts about Word

Word is a popular word processing software application developed by Microsoft that allows users to create, edit, and print documents.

1. FCC chair suggests agency isn't independent, word cut from mission statement (www.axios.com)
   151 points by jmsflknr 27 days ago | 167 comments
2. ‘Fuck you, make me’ without saying the words (daringfireball.net)
   129 points by chmaynard 2 days ago | 90 comments
3. American Dialect Society 2025 Word of the Year Is "Slop" (americandialect.org)
   94 points by ChrisArchitect 2 days ago | 35 comments
4. Show HN: Learning a Language Using Only Words You Know (simedw.com)
   84 points by simedw 29 days ago | 29 comments
5. The immortality of Microsoft Word (theredline.versionstory.com)
   69 points by jpbryan 26 days ago | 100 comments
6. 2025 Word of the Year: Slop (www.merriam-webster.com)
   65 points by djoldman 29 days ago | 12 comments
7. LocalFirst: You Keep Using That Word (www.deobald.ca)
   51 points by deobald 8 days ago | 11 comments
8. AI Withholds Life-or-Death Information Unless You Know the Magic Words (substack.com)
   44 points by llamataboot 20 days ago | 24 comments
9. Show HN: Tidy Baby is a SET game but with words (tidy.baby)
   37 points by brgross 14 days ago | 7 comments
10. English vocabulary test – how many words do you know? (www.myvocab.info)
    24 points by danousna 29 days ago | 23 comments
11. The Gemini AI Studio "Context Tax": How a 10-word prompt cost me £121
    21 points by daitandojo 14 days ago | 6 comments
12. 'Fuck You, Make Me' Without Saying the Words (daringfireball.net)
    14 points by nopakos 3 days ago | 17 comments
13. Show HN: A to Z – A word game I built from a childhood road trip memory (a26z.fun)
    13 points by jackhulbert 6 days ago | 8 comments
14. Show HN: words.zip – Massively infinite word search (words.zip)
    11 points by yathern 1 day ago | 5 comments
15. Functors, Applicatives, and Monads: The Scary Words You Understand (cekrem.github.io)
    10 points by todsacerdoti 8 days ago | discuss
16. Electric Pencil: a word processor that worked best with a soldering iron (stonetools.ghost.io)
    9 points by ChristopherDrum 22 days ago | discuss
17. Amazon Layoffs – In My Own Words (substack.com)
    8 points by turrini 2 days ago | 1 comments
18. Show HN: Word Snake (wordsnake.co)
    8 points by ediblepython 21 days ago | discuss
19. FreeRadical – Rust CMS that's 1500% faster than WordPress (freeradical.dev)
    6 points by prabhatkr 18 days ago | 5 comments
20. Show HN: Words.zip (Infinite Word Search) (words.zip)
    6 points by yathern 12 days ago | 3 comments
21. Year in a Word: Taco (www.ft.com)
    6 points by KnuthIsGod 15 days ago | 1 comments
22. Zuck buys Chinese AI company Manus that claims it deals in actions, not words (www.theregister.com)
    6 points by rguiscard 15 days ago | 1 comments
23. Merriam-Webster's human editors have chosen 'slop' as the 2025 Word of the Year (bsky.app)
    6 points by choult 29 days ago | 1 comments
24. Show HN: TinyDOCX – Word/ODT library (14x smaller than docx) (github.com)
    6 points by lulzx 22 days ago | discuss
25. 'Welcome In.' The Two-Word Greeting That's Taking over and Driving Shoppers Nuts (www.wsj.com)
    5 points by toomanyrichies 24 days ago | 2 comments
26. Show HN: Speechable – AI Text-to-Speech for WordPress Websites
    5 points by Tanishmittal 10 days ago | discuss
27. Formally Speaking, "Transpiler" Is a Useless Word (people.csail.mit.edu)
    5 points by rachitnigam 14 days ago | discuss
28. How We Use the Word Cyber (www.bbc.com)
    5 points by andsoitis 15 days ago | discuss
29. Why Your WordPress Site Needs a Paywall for Robots (402gate.xyz)
    5 points by thunderbong 27 days ago | discuss
30. Why You Should Never Again Utter The Word, “CIFS” (2012) (blog.fosketts.net)
    4 points by sipofwater 25 days ago | 3 comments