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. Bag of words, have mercy on us (www.experimental-history.com)
   328 points by ntnbr 23 days ago | 353 comments
2. FCC chair suggests agency isn't independent, word cut from mission statement (www.axios.com)
   151 points by jmsflknr 13 days ago | 167 comments
3. Constructing the Word's First JPEG XL MD5 Hash Quine (stackchk.fail)
   131 points by luispa 29 days ago | 24 comments
4. WordPress plugin quirk resulted in UK Gov OBR Budget leak [pdf] (obr.uk)
   130 points by robtaylor 29 days ago | 123 comments
5. Show HN: Learning a Language Using Only Words You Know (simedw.com)
   84 points by simedw 15 days ago | 29 comments
6. The immortality of Microsoft Word (theredline.versionstory.com)
   69 points by jpbryan 12 days ago | 100 comments
7. 2025 Word of the Year: Slop (www.merriam-webster.com)
   65 points by djoldman 15 days ago | 12 comments
8. Word spacing (en.wikipedia.org)
   46 points by doener 25 days ago | 47 comments
9. AI Withholds Life-or-Death Information Unless You Know the Magic Words (substack.com)
   44 points by llamataboot 6 days ago | 24 comments
10. One too many words on AT&T's $2k Korn shell and other Usenet topics (blog.gabornyeki.com)
    31 points by gnyeki 22 days ago | 3 comments
11. Show HN: An endless scrolling word search game (endless-wordsearch.com)
    25 points by marcusdev 19 days ago | 16 comments
12. English vocabulary test – how many words do you know? (www.myvocab.info)
    24 points by danousna 15 days ago | 23 comments
13. Constructing the Word's First JPEG XL MD5 Hash Quine (stackchk.fail)
    20 points by todsacerdoti 29 days ago | discuss
14. Show HN: Briddle – Guess the AI's semantic path between two words (briddle.io)
    10 points by rvranjan 21 days ago | 4 comments
15. Europe Wants to Get the Word Out: Russia Is to Blame for Sabotage (www.nytimes.com)
    9 points by danielam 27 days ago | 1 comments
16. Electric Pencil: a word processor that worked best with a soldering iron (stonetools.ghost.io)
    9 points by ChristopherDrum 8 days ago | discuss
17. Show HN: Word Snake (wordsnake.co)
    8 points by ediblepython 7 days ago | discuss
18. FreeRadical – Rust CMS that's 1500% faster than WordPress (freeradical.dev)
    6 points by prabhatkr 4 days ago | 5 comments
19. Oxford Word of the Year 2025 is rage bait (corp.oup.com)
    6 points by ChrisArchitect 30 days ago | 5 comments
20. Year in a Word: Taco (www.ft.com)
    6 points by KnuthIsGod about 15 hours ago | 1 comments
21. Zuck buys Chinese AI company Manus that claims it deals in actions, not words (www.theregister.com)
    6 points by rguiscard about 15 hours ago | 1 comments
22. Merriam-Webster's human editors have chosen 'slop' as the 2025 Word of the Year (bsky.app)
    6 points by choult 15 days ago | 1 comments
23. Show HN: TinyDOCX – Word/ODT library (14x smaller than docx) (github.com)
    6 points by lulzx 8 days ago | discuss
24. A big list of things I disable in WordPress (shkspr.mobi)
    6 points by speckx 29 days ago | discuss
25. 'Rage Bait' Named Oxford Word of the Year 2025 (www.bbc.com)
    6 points by skx001 29 days ago | discuss
26. Markdown Can Never Replace Microsoft Word (theredline.versionstory.com)
    5 points by jpbryan 27 days ago | 4 comments
27. 'Welcome In.' The Two-Word Greeting That's Taking over and Driving Shoppers Nuts (www.wsj.com)
    5 points by toomanyrichies 10 days ago | 2 comments
28. How We Use the Word Cyber (www.bbc.com)
    5 points by andsoitis about 15 hours ago | discuss
29. Why Your WordPress Site Needs a Paywall for Robots (402gate.xyz)
    5 points by thunderbong 13 days ago | discuss
30. Why You Should Never Again Utter The Word, “CIFS” (2012) (blog.fosketts.net)
    4 points by sipofwater 11 days ago | 3 comments