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U.S. Strike on Iranian School May Have Been War Crime, U.N. Report Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/world/asia/us-iran-school-strike-report.html
1•vinni2•25s ago•0 comments

Five air-gapped, zero-telemetry utilities for privacy and operational leaks

https://github.com/warknoc/warknoc
1•warknoc•2m ago•0 comments

The GDP-per-person slowdown threatens global living standards

https://economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/09/17/the-gdp-per-person-slowdown-threatens-glob...
2•andsoitis•6m ago•0 comments

Air Force secretary acknowledges the US has weapons in space

https://abcnews.com/Politics/air-force-secretary-acknowledges-us-weapons-space/story?id=136437923
1•gmays•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: OpenAI has a live market price before it has a stock ticker

https://tickerlayer.com/symbols/openaiusdt-perp
1•tickerlayer•10m ago•2 comments

Open weights models are surprisingly aligned on offensive cyber

https://pentesttoday.com/blog/open-weights-models-offensive-cyber
2•scottfits•10m ago•0 comments

Google Earth to be axed next year [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lajFCLd4_G4
1•nephihaha•11m ago•1 comments

What Little Hope Remains

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/what-little-hope-remains
1•zdw•12m ago•0 comments

Mind Mapping for Omarchy

https://mindarchy.xyz/
1•kangu-ro•15m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What exists if I want a premade SoC/MCU/screen/enclosure/battery?

1•ex-aws-dude•17m ago•1 comments

What's New in Vapor 5 Beta

https://blog.vapor.codes/posts/whats-new-in-vapor-5-beta/
1•frizlab•18m ago•0 comments

How to Get Your First 100 SaaS Users in Europe

https://speartip.eu/en/journal/first-100-saas-users-europe
3•janket•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Salt – Human and AI Economies driven across E2E encrypted chats

https://saltapp.ai/
1•0x0000F8•21m ago•0 comments

Resy suspends VC for using AI agents to book reservations

https://www.businessinsider.com/resy-suspends-vcs-account-ai-agent-reservation-attempt-2026-9
2•toomuchtodo•21m ago•1 comments

OpenAI Agents Got into Link Shortener, Surfed Web, Called FBI with a Stranger's

https://www.kennethdegraff.com/swarm
1•DeepLogin•23m ago•1 comments

Best Sugar Daddy Apps

https://gitlab.com/bestsugardaddyapps/best-sugar-daddy-app
1•whatsupdog•23m ago•0 comments

How Bain Cap is deploying 1.6B

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/how-bain-capital-ventures-plans-to-deploy-its-fresh-1-6b-fund/
1•jayzalowitz•25m ago•0 comments

Separating Compilation from Attestation. C++ memory safety without disruption

https://gist.github.com/mksunny1/fe88dc882278cb76181e7b2b3eb1d5ce
1•marksun130•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Jev routing coding tasks to Grok Build or Codex Astra

https://github.com/jcpsimmons/jev-model-router-demo
1•joshcsimmons•27m ago•0 comments

The Mother Tongue of All Secrets

https://sundaylongread.com/2026/09/12/the-mother-tongue-of-all-secrets/
1•gmays•28m ago•0 comments

Cohere launches confidential computing in model vault

https://cohere.com/blog/cohere-and-aleph-alpha-sign-agreement
1•razodactyl•28m ago•0 comments

How Claude is uplifting biomolecular modeling

https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-uplifts-biomolecular-modeling
2•vertigoruntime•29m ago•0 comments

The Next Gene-Editing Technology May Also Be the Oldest

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/science/crispr-gene-editing-vipr.html
1•JumpCrisscross•31m ago•0 comments

How to Write with an LLM

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/17/how-to-write-with-an-llm/
3•joeriddles•34m ago•0 comments

Alibaba Releases Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash

https://tokenstead.ai/models/qwen3-8-omni-flash
2•cdnsteve•34m ago•0 comments

Don't Drown the Dream – AI

https://jeffreylminch.substack.com/p/dont-drown-the-dream-ai
1•rmason•36m ago•0 comments

Multiple providers offer free mystery model, Union Alpha

https://tokenstead.ai/models/union-alpha
1•cdnsteve•36m ago•0 comments

NASA's TEMPO satellite enables better monitoring of bad air days

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2026/tempo-satellite-enables-better...
2•knowablemag•36m ago•0 comments

Where do innovative problems come from?

https://www.epilogueidea.com/
1•gittingdata•38m ago•0 comments

A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ
1•absqueued•39m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

I Hate You Microsoft

https://henriquenunez.eu/posts/you_did_it_again_ms/
87•henriquenunez•41m ago

Comments

TutleCpt•27m ago
I also hate Microsoft.
hosel•21m ago
What they did to windows is criminal. I honestly cannot believe the state of windows 11. I will never work a job again where I have to use windows.
vondur•27m ago
It looks like your license only allows for the web version, so your university probably isn't spending that much for it. You'd get the same message on Windows too.
nrub•16m ago
I think this overlooks the full picture. It's not about the this one pin prick relating to their license. It's that working with Microsoft in any capacity is filled with paper cuts like this, annoyances, bad design, and overt errors. Every single day.

They're a User hostile company and they make a buck by doing just enough to convince non-experts to keep their enterprise licenses.

internet101010•10m ago
Windows 11 has been out for like 6 years and they still haven't fixed a major File Explorer bug: after a few minutes of File Explorer being open the menu bar for the old File Explorer pops up underneath the new thing that replace the menu bar; none of the buttons on this weird artifact from the past work. It's just there. Re-open File Explorer and it goes away, until a few minutes later and it re-appears.

Not as noticeable on light mode but a constant distracting reminder about how much Microslop sucks on dark mode.

bibstha•15m ago
Silly that the error message doesn't convey that, right? I recently got added to a company's Teams account as a guest. I do a bit of software contract work and have used Slack with no issue until now, this is what Teams show me:

- Client says they added me already, but I have no email with an invite. Turns out I didn't have an account that had previously joined Teams with a personal account.

- But even after I created a teams account, due to the order of events (added to corp account as guest, then created a teams account), I still don't have access and need to be readded.

- I can't upload images on groups because I don't have OneDrive access, WTF?

- I cannot download transcripts of meetings I join because I don't have permission.

How bad can a software be? Really?

bunderbunder•13m ago
I'm not so sure about that. For a while now I've worked at companies where PC users could use desktop Office but Mac users had to use the Web version. I think that Office for Mac might actually be a largely separate codebase - there are also significant feature differences between it and the PC version.

Also, just quickly poking through their various enterprise plans (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/mic...), I found several that offered Web & Windows but not Mac, and none that only allowed editing on Web like you describe.

Handy-Man•25m ago
It seems your plan wouldn't even allow editing on Windows. Your university seems to be just paying for web versions.
jadar•24m ago
First, doesn't Microsoft give away M365 for free to educational institutions? (Perhaps that's only US institutions, though.) Second, isn't this how they bill their accounts — Business Basic doesn't get desktop apps and you need to pay more to use desktop apps? Third, did the OP try to open their document in LibreOffice? I think there's a legitimate criticism of the move from one-time lifetime purchases to the SaaS economy, but Microsoft isn't the only one who deserves criticism for this.
saulpw•23m ago
Perhaps Microsoft is the biggest one though? (Who could possibly be bigger?)
jadar•21m ago
Perhaps Google would be bigger? They don't even have desktop app offerings and the consumer versions are subsidized with your advertising data. They certainly weren't the first to introduce the pattern. I feel like Adobe was one of the first big providers to move from lifetime licenses to subscriptions.
jimbobimbo•24m ago
Alternative headline: my university had bought a (cheaper?) plan which doesn't tick all necessary boxes.
Grombobulous•14m ago
This is a good time to point out that Microsoft’s tiers and pricing for Microsoft 365 is completely insane as far as the overwhelming number of different ways to fundamentally buy the exact same software.

I realize they’re trying to sell a productivity suite to basically every business on earth and that the complexity might at some point be necessary, but still…could be simpler.

yndoendo•23m ago
You have to pay me to use Microsoft products and services.

The user experience gets worse with each passing year. A good product designer would see numerous flaws with in five minutes of using their office suite.

johnsmith1840•11m ago
I recently was building out on azure and oh boy, the joy of microsoft products.

Their troubleshoot support tool must be the same team that makes it on local windows troubleshooter because literally every single time you use it, it spins for 10min then says it can't fix anything.

pelagicAustral•23m ago
Skill issue, this is why I mainline a macbook pro, a windows shitbox laptop and my kubuntu katana mega riced XPS. Yeah, I also walk about with a live cd.
humungus•17m ago
based
harmlessblu•22m ago
I've seen this and I think it's actually a bug. I have mac computers at work and occasionally this will crop up and typically signing out and back in resolves the issue.
bjt12345•13m ago
I think one of the more insane things Microsoft have done is their product management of MS Visio.

It became so insanely expensive my work started making us apply for 3 month licenses until we gave up and found something else.

About 15 years ago my Industry was using MS Visio for every diagram.

But they updated the GUI entirely and nobody could be bothered with the new format.

Now people use DrawIO and MS Visio is forgotten.

kown7•10m ago
I don't know what you're doing and I feel all of your Visio pain, but have you tried typst?
miamicholo•13m ago
Outlook is the new Lotus Notes
flowerlad•9m ago
Outlook for Windows used to be great in the 90s and early 2000s. Since then all they have done is added new bugs. And the latest version is HTML/JavaScript in a WebView, no longer native Windows.
mrdatawolf•11m ago
An Apple user complaining about this? Oh that is rich!

I don't condone or like this kind of thing from MS. We all know though who MS copies...

You support the company that perfected it. So pot meet kettle.

jbubimon•5m ago
Except Apple’s products tend to be at the very least good. The baseline for Microsoft products, however, is unusable.
legitster•9m ago
This is more about the Office 365 admin configuration settings than about Microsoft's products themselves.

"Why do people still buy Microsoft?" Because admins can make weird configuration settings.

Scharkenberg•6m ago
Henrique should take it up to his university. When I was a student, mine used to provide me with an account that could use desktop apps on Windows and Mac. Educational institutions get very cheap license bundles compared to enterprises btw.

(Also funny that he says we should not use proprietary software, but ignores his own usage of macOS.)

adamredwoods•6m ago
Is this loosely in regards to the US Cloud Act? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AUpASjLV0E

Don't forget: https://www.libreoffice.org/