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 15 days ago | 353 comments
2. FCC chair suggests agency isn't independent, word cut from mission statement (www.axios.com)
   151 points by jmsflknr 5 days ago | 167 comments
3. Constructing the Word's First JPEG XL MD5 Hash Quine (stackchk.fail)
   131 points by luispa 21 days ago | 24 comments
4. WordPress plugin quirk resulted in UK Gov OBR Budget leak [pdf] (obr.uk)
   130 points by robtaylor 21 days ago | 123 comments
5. Show HN: Learning a Language Using Only Words You Know (simedw.com)
   84 points by simedw 8 days ago | 28 comments
6. The immortality of Microsoft Word (theredline.versionstory.com)
   69 points by jpbryan 4 days ago | 100 comments
7. Show HN: A WordPress plugin that rewrites image URLs for near-zero-cost delivery (wordpress.org)
   67 points by cr1st1an 27 days ago | 65 comments
8. 2025 Word of the Year: Slop (www.merriam-webster.com)
   65 points by djoldman 8 days ago | 12 comments
9. Word spacing (en.wikipedia.org)
   46 points by doener 18 days ago | 47 comments
10. How to get Pandoc to respect custom table styles in Word templates (johnathandos.com)
    32 points by johnathandos 28 days ago | 2 comments
11. One too many words on AT&T's $2k Korn shell and other Usenet topics (blog.gabornyeki.com)
    31 points by gnyeki 15 days ago | 3 comments
12. Show HN: An endless scrolling word search game (endless-wordsearch.com)
    25 points by marcusdev 11 days ago | 16 comments
13. English vocabulary test – how many words do you know? (www.myvocab.info)
    24 points by danousna 8 days ago | 23 comments
14. Constructing the Word's First JPEG XL MD5 Hash Quine (stackchk.fail)
    20 points by todsacerdoti 22 days ago | discuss
15. Show HN: Briddle – Guess the AI's semantic path between two words (briddle.io)
    10 points by rvranjan 13 days ago | 4 comments
16. Europe Wants to Get the Word Out: Russia Is to Blame for Sabotage (www.nytimes.com)
    9 points by danielam 19 days ago | 1 comments
17. Oxford Word of the Year 2025 is rage bait (corp.oup.com)
    6 points by ChrisArchitect 22 days ago | 5 comments
18. Merriam-Webster's human editors have chosen 'slop' as the 2025 Word of the Year (bsky.app)
    6 points by choult 7 days ago | 1 comments
19. A big list of things I disable in WordPress (shkspr.mobi)
    6 points by speckx 21 days ago | discuss
20. 'Rage Bait' Named Oxford Word of the Year 2025 (www.bbc.com)
    6 points by skx001 22 days ago | discuss
21. Markdown Can Never Replace Microsoft Word (theredline.versionstory.com)
    5 points by jpbryan 19 days ago | 4 comments
22. Show HN: TinyDOCX – Word/ODT library (14x smaller than docx) (github.com)
    5 points by lulzx about 9 hours ago | discuss
23. Why Your WordPress Site Needs a Paywall for Robots (402gate.xyz)
    5 points by thunderbong 5 days ago | discuss
24. Open source YouTube Content Blocker based on words (chromewebstore.google.com)
    4 points by varshneydevansh 23 days ago | 5 comments
25. Why You Should Never Again Utter The Word, “CIFS” (2012) (blog.fosketts.net)
    4 points by sipofwater 3 days ago | 3 comments
26. Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year is 'slop' (www.theverge.com)
    4 points by poniko 7 days ago | 3 comments
27. 'Welcome In.' The Two-Word Greeting That's Taking over and Driving Shoppers Nuts (www.wsj.com)
    4 points by toomanyrichies 2 days ago | 2 comments
28. Show HN: I replaced Markov Chains with Biomechanics to predict word transitions (github.com)
    4 points by Sam_Sep10l 14 days ago | 2 comments
29. Ask HN: Why don't closed captions boldface words that are likely to be misheard?
    4 points by amichail 24 days ago | 2 comments
30. WordPress Playground: 2025 Year in Review (make.wordpress.org)
    4 points by program 19 days ago | discuss