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MIT neuroscientists discover the brain can reason without words

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260811011140.htm
1•sundarurfriend•1m ago•0 comments

My experience buying ads in ChatGPT: the good, the bad and the ugly

https://successfulsoftware.net/2026/08/13/my-experience-buying-ads-in-chatgpt-the-good-the-bad-an...
1•nozzlegear•1m ago•0 comments

Could geothermal roads help prevent potholes before they form?

https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/could-geothermal-roads-help-prevent-potholes-they-form-surrey-trial...
1•geox•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: How to use Mu – tools for agents – with x402 payments

https://micro.mu/blog/post?id=1786633600633959421
1•asim•3m ago•0 comments

Claudish-to-English makes Claude output comprehensible

https://github.com/gvzdv/claudish-to-english
1•rickcarlino•3m ago•0 comments

The Improbable, Inevitable Return of the Suit

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-13/the-suit-makes-a-fashion-comeback
1•tmoertel•4m ago•0 comments

Incremental Learning

https://www.super-memory.com/help/il.htm
1•Tomte•4m ago•0 comments

2,500-year-old sculpture discovered at UNESCO site in Turkey

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/07/colossal-2500-year-old-sculpture-discovered-turkey-une...
1•speckx•5m ago•0 comments

Zoom Zero-Click Vulnerabilities

https://a.security/blog/asecurity-zoomsday
3•vsgherzi•5m ago•0 comments

Design with a Soul: How to make your Vibe-coded site not look like AI Slop

1•Ozzie-D•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kanea – Container orchestration in one binary

https://github.com/m18h/kanea
1•messandoh•7m ago•0 comments

Toddler's tragic death from brain-destroying amoeba offers lessons for doctors

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/an-ultra-rare-amoeba-was-destroying-a-toddlers-brain-docto...
1•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

In praise of designer-ish babies

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/08/13/in-praise-of-designer-ish-babies
2•shadow28•8m ago•1 comments

Build a Software Factory on Vercel

https://github.com/vercel-labs/eve-software-factory-template
1•flashbrew•9m ago•0 comments

Eve Software Factory

https://ask-foreman.dev/
2•flashbrew•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Lark, OSS realtime database, drop-in compatible with Firebase SDKs

https://github.com/lark-sh/lark
1•silverlight•9m ago•0 comments

Forward Deployed Executives – The Next Billion-Dollar AI Unblock

https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/forward-deployed-executives-the-next
1•hank2000•10m ago•0 comments

LoongLeak: A Vulnerability Affecting Chinese Loongson 3A5000 and 3A6000 CPUs

https://loongleakattack.com/
3•csmantle•10m ago•0 comments

Open-source pikocore: 15 homemade hacks

https://shop.infinitedigits.co/blog/the-pikocore-underground/
1•qrv3w•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Generating Pixel Art Sprites

https://www.spritefusion.com/pixel-art-gallery
2•HugoDz•13m ago•0 comments

Doom's renderer, compiled into transformer weights – no training anywhere

https://ood.dev/posts/doom/
1•physicsrob•13m ago•1 comments

AI Changes the Economics of JIT Compilers

https://malisper.me/how-ai-changes-the-economics-of-jit-compilers/
1•WillDaSilva•14m ago•0 comments

Namecheap outage caused by cooling system failure at Phoenix data center

https://twitter.com/Namecheap/status/2087902651124011037
2•slhck•14m ago•3 comments

Show HN: Zuke – Code-first, strongly-typed build automation for Deno

https://github.com/zuke-build/zuke
2•totollygeek•15m ago•0 comments

Prepin – AI that interviews engineers with voice and live coding

https://prepin.ai/
1•OlehSavchuk•15m ago•0 comments

Model Vendors Are Entering the Implementation Layer

https://www.voxelperfect.com/writing/model-vendors-are-entering-the-implementation-layer
1•voxelperfect•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Nanosamur.ai – open-source private speech AI platform

https://github.com/nanosamurai/nanosamurai
1•newcrobuzon•18m ago•0 comments

Takeaway and food delivery are having a growing impact on inflation

https://www.dnb.nl/en/general-news/background-2026/takeaway-and-food-delivery-services-are-having...
1•andrewstetsenko•18m ago•1 comments

Desperate US sailors trying to jump overboard on extended Middle East deployment

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/middle-east-abraham-lincon-sailors-iran-b303171...
1•speckx•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Landing page demos that run the real app in a microVM per visitor

https://www.paperplanes.sh/demo
2•lasdw•20m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Local-Only Microsoft Word?

1•AnimalMuppet•53m ago
Let's say I bought a new PC. New, so running Windows 11. And let's say I wanted Microsoft Word, and thought that Libre Office wasn't good enough because reasons. And let's say I wanted Microsoft Word that lived on my PC, not off in the cloud somewhere - something I could still use even without an internet connection, and where all my files were local and stayed local.

What was the last version of Word that was local-only? Can one still buy a new copy? If so, from where?

Comments

stop50•48m ago
2003 maybe.
JohnFen•46m ago
I know that Office 2016 runs locally. Later versions might, but I don't know for certain. You can't get 2016 new, of course, but a quick eBay search turned up a number of new old stock copies. It looks like they're going for around $60.
stop50•31m ago
The registration and a few other things run over the internet
AnimalMuppet•15m ago
I can live with that (if I understood you correctly). I can accept being online at the time I register it... if the registration process still works.