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Draw outlines, or use graphics, wire up clickable areas, and interaction flows, and you\u2019ve got a presentable \u201clive\u201d demo that doesn\u2019t run afoul of issues presenting demo sites to non-techies (placeholder text, ugly buttons, test domains, colours, etc).", "context": "", "use_case": "clickable mock demos", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI"}, {"id": 788686656, "item_id": 49292916, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49292916", "by": "mcteamster", "date": "2026-08-13", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "My last PowerPoint game pushes the limits of what you can do", "excerpt": "Had this same pathway into programming and game development too, thanks to having tons of spare time with a computer that had only ms office and no internet My last PowerPoint game pushes the limits of what you can do to implement memory mechanically using animation triggers: https://mcteamster.itch.io/halloween", "context": "", "use_case": "Building games", "switched_from": "", "story": "Idol Mahjong Final Romance: A Slideshow Disguised as a Video Game"}, {"id": 784374384, "item_id": 49023399, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023399", "by": "bccdee", "date": "2026-07-23", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You could make it yourself in 10 minutes, with PowerPoint", "excerpt": "You're ignoring the third option, which is to make a PowerPoint slide with a stock photo and print that. Or use an online template. There are a million ways to make a cheap, adequate flyer. Look at this poster template. You could make it yourself in 10 minutes, with PowerPoint or any of a million other drag & drop poster-makers. https://s3.amazonaws.com/thumbnails.venngage.com/template/1b267dda-af8d-4b48-8a55-6a885e8", "context": "", "use_case": "Cheap flyers and posters", "switched_from": "", "story": "Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns"}, {"id": 770877537, "item_id": 48179846, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179846", "by": "haritha-j", "date": "2026-05-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "there's an AI version now built into microsoft powerpoint", "excerpt": "Background removal. that's the main thing i used photoshop for. Last week I noticed that there's an AI version now built into microsoft powerpoint. I have almost no use for photoshop now.", "context": "", "use_case": "background removal", "switched_from": "Photoshop", "story": "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"}, {"id": 762232339, "item_id": 47639521, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639521", "by": "NikolaNovak", "date": "2026-04-04", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it works shockingly well, with minor but important caveats", "excerpt": "I use onenote as a personal note taking system. For shared artifacts we use word, excel or PowerPoint in corporate onedrive and it works shockingly well, with minor but important caveats - you can't usually edit the same exact box at the same time, and it can get confused with offline changes by multiple people. But online changes by multiple simultaneous people seems to work really well. I especially enjoy when one ", "context": "", "use_case": "shared presentations", "switched_from": "", "story": "Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 795299185, "item_id": 49706199, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49706199", "by": "nzoschke", "date": "2026-09-15", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Infinitely better than powerpoint or GSlides.", "excerpt": "Thanks for sharing this too. It reminds me of GistDeck a super old project that turned a gist into slides. Infinitely better than powerpoint or GSlides. https://github.com/nzoschke/gistdeck", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Charts built for Chat"}, {"id": 792215136, "item_id": 49513446, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49513446", "by": "computomatic", "date": "2026-08-31", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Then I used PowerPoint via the browser and found this level of data loss is a regular occurrence.", "excerpt": "Most likely a SaaS app that auto-saves, but didn\u2019t save properly. Then closing the laptop caused a network disconnect, and the in-browser app did not recover gracefully while awaiting reconnect on wake-up and lost all unsaved data. This would have been unbelievable to me before this year. Then I used PowerPoint via the browser and found this level of data loss is a regular occurrence.", "context": "", "use_case": "web-based presentations", "switched_from": "", "story": "Student teacher arrested for private Snapchat message"}, {"id": 782738225, "item_id": 48921139, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921139", "by": "laci37", "date": "2026-07-15", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "last month I had to fight to zoom in on something in PowerPoint", "excerpt": "I mostly feel this on Microsoft stuff. O365 browser stuff was always buggy, but last month I had to fight to zoom in on something in PowerPoint. Pagination in Azure ML randomly broke, it took them a month to fix it. Atlassian is also a bug factory, but I did not expect anything better of them. Each UI update they did to Confluence and Jira just made everything more confusing in the last 10 years.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?"}, {"id": 763467008, "item_id": 47716688, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716688", "by": "dotcoma", "date": "2026-04-10", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "If there\u2019s no alternative to PowerPoint, that should be treated as a plus, not as a problem.", "excerpt": "If there\u2019s no alternative to PowerPoint, that should be treated as a plus, not as a problem.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins"}]}], "who": [{"by": "bojta-lepenye", "context": "self-published author", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48239422", "date": "2026-05-22"}, {"by": "shetyemanasi", "context": "UI/UX designer, 6+ years", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46472938", "date": "2026-01-02"}, {"by": "somethingsome", "context": "teaches lectures", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45943913", "date": "2025-11-16"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["clickable mock demos", "presentation slides", "web-based presentations", "building games", "simple games and animations", "interactive clickable tour"], "compared": [{"slug": "adobe-photoshop", "name": "Adobe Photoshop", "co": 3, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "keynote", "name": "Keynote", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "jira", "name": "Jira", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "quarto", "name": "Quarto", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "marp", "name": "Marp", "co": 1, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49236811", "title": "Idol Mahjong Final Romance: A Slideshow Disguised as a Video Game", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192186", "title": "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527396", "title": "The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716043", "title": "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46336097", "title": "Immersa: Open-source Web-based 3D Presentation Tool", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276883", "title": "Show HN: SlideBySide \u2013 Present slides without sharing your screen", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2025-12": {"warn": 3, "neutral": 2, "recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 1, "warn": 2}, "2026-02": {"warn": 1, "compare": 1}, "2026-03": {"warn": 3, "neutral": 1}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 1, "warn": 2, "neutral": 1}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 2}, "2026-06": {"compare": 1}, "2026-07": {"warn": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-08": {"neutral": 2, "recommend": 1, "warn": 1}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 1, "warn": 2}, "2026-10": {"compare": 1, "neutral": 2, "recommend": 1}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 804440304, "item_id": 50277519, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50277519", "by": "sublinear", "date": "2026-10-28", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Lots of people use powerpoint and can't escape the microsoft ecosystem anyway.", "excerpt": "What's the use case? Lots of people use powerpoint and can't escape the microsoft ecosystem anyway. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/present-from-powerpoint-live-in-microsoft-teams", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: SlideBySide \u2013 Present slides without sharing your screen"}, {"id": 804120816, "item_id": 50257551, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257551", "by": "bonesss", "date": "2026-10-27", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use PowerPoint for that.", "excerpt": "I use PowerPoint for that. Draw outlines, or use graphics, wire up clickable areas, and interaction flows, and you\u2019ve got a presentable \u201clive\u201d demo that doesn\u2019t run afoul of issues presenting demo sites to non-techies (placeholder text, ugly buttons, test domains, colours, etc).", "context": "", "use_case": "clickable mock demos", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI"}, {"id": 798801174, "item_id": 49925073, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925073", "by": "shetyemanasi", "date": "2026-10-01", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Presentation: Keynote, InVision, Microsoft PowerPoint", "excerpt": "Location: Europe Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Design: Figma, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Experience and Miro Presentation: Keynote, InVision, Microsoft PowerPoint Project Management: Jira, Kanban Boards, and Trello Prototyping Tools: InVision, Axure RP and Figma Programming: Basic HTML & CSS R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1stXm3PbP-_20SKp-RK-KEPfINGOgR02S/view?usp=drive_", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)"}, {"id": 798731168, "item_id": 49920698, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920698", "by": "WillAdams", "date": "2026-10-01", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "", "excerpt": "One problem which I've had working in this space is the difficulty of naming specific shapes --- worked up a list in my current project: https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/gcodepreview.pdf (should be section 3.8.1.1 on pg. 97, not sure, since I need to push up an update) and I'd be glad of any comment or correction or point of improvement.", "context": "", "use_case": "Presentation slides", "switched_from": "", "story": "Book of Shapes \u2013 Collection of minimal, generative and customizable SVG-patterns"}, {"id": 795299185, "item_id": 49706199, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49706199", "by": "nzoschke", "date": "2026-09-15", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Infinitely better than powerpoint or GSlides.", "excerpt": "Thanks for sharing this too. It reminds me of GistDeck a super old project that turned a gist into slides. Infinitely better than powerpoint or GSlides. https://github.com/nzoschke/gistdeck", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Charts built for Chat"}, {"id": 792557153, "item_id": 49534822, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49534822", "by": "artpar", "date": "2026-09-02", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "I have made puppt cli for this, it includes high dpi rendering per-slide/all-slides and in place editing https://github.com/artpar/puppt it allows your llms to see the ppt files structurally apart from just rendering it", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice"}, {"id": 792477969, "item_id": 49529873, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529873", "by": "pseudosavant", "date": "2026-09-01", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "using PowerPoint for Windows yesterday", "excerpt": "This can absolutely be done programmatically. I just added the ability to do that using PowerPoint for Windows yesterday in my uv/python tool `markdown-pptx`. Codex added the functionality in less than 5 minutes. https://github.com/pseudosavant/markdown-pptx/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice"}, {"id": 792215136, "item_id": 49513446, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49513446", "by": "computomatic", "date": "2026-08-31", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Then I used PowerPoint via the browser and found this level of data loss is a regular occurrence.", "excerpt": "Most likely a SaaS app that auto-saves, but didn\u2019t save properly. Then closing the laptop caused a network disconnect, and the in-browser app did not recover gracefully while awaiting reconnect on wake-up and lost all unsaved data. This would have been unbelievable to me before this year. Then I used PowerPoint via the browser and found this level of data loss is a regular occurrence.", "context": "", "use_case": "web-based presentations", "switched_from": "", "story": "Student teacher arrested for private Snapchat message"}, {"id": 788686656, "item_id": 49292916, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49292916", "by": "mcteamster", "date": "2026-08-13", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "My last PowerPoint game pushes the limits of what you can do", "excerpt": "Had this same pathway into programming and game development too, thanks to having tons of spare time with a computer that had only ms office and no internet My last PowerPoint game pushes the limits of what you can do to implement memory mechanically using animation triggers: https://mcteamster.itch.io/halloween", "context": "", "use_case": "Building games", "switched_from": "", "story": "Idol Mahjong Final Romance: A Slideshow Disguised as a Video Game"}, {"id": 788682720, "item_id": 49292670, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49292670", "by": "wildzzz", "date": "2026-08-13", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used to make simple games and animations like that in PowerPoint.", "excerpt": "I used to make simple games and animations like that in PowerPoint. Then I discovered geocities and helped make some click and point games with a friend who did all handdrawn artwork that I'd scan in. Then I hit puberty and my brain turned to mush for a bit. I wish I still had that stuff. It's not I'm any geocities archive I've seen online.", "context": "", "use_case": "simple games and animations", "switched_from": "", "story": "Idol Mahjong Final Romance: A Slideshow Disguised as a Video Game"}, {"id": 788675312, "item_id": 49292207, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49292207", "by": "hightrix", "date": "2026-08-13", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used it to create an interactive tour through a historic house in my home town.", "excerpt": "This is really cool. Old school video game developers were really creative with their usage of technology. Mildly related, in high school back when Power Point was new (yes, dating myself a bit), I used it to create an interactive tour through a historic house in my home town. Users could click on a door to enter a room, click back to move back, and explore the full house. It was a wild maze of click areas to numbere", "context": "", "use_case": "interactive clickable tour", "switched_from": "", "story": "Idol Mahjong Final Romance: A Slideshow Disguised as a Video Game"}, {"id": 784374384, "item_id": 49023399, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023399", "by": "bccdee", "date": "2026-07-23", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You could make it yourself in 10 minutes, with PowerPoint", "excerpt": "You're ignoring the third option, which is to make a PowerPoint slide with a stock photo and print that. Or use an online template. There are a million ways to make a cheap, adequate flyer. Look at this poster template. You could make it yourself in 10 minutes, with PowerPoint or any of a million other drag & drop poster-makers. https://s3.amazonaws.com/thumbnails.venngage.com/template/1b267dda-af8d-4b48-8a55-6a885e8", "context": "", "use_case": "Cheap flyers and posters", "switched_from": "", "story": "Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns"}, {"id": 782738225, "item_id": 48921139, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921139", "by": "laci37", "date": "2026-07-15", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "last month I had to fight to zoom in on something in PowerPoint", "excerpt": "I mostly feel this on Microsoft stuff. O365 browser stuff was always buggy, but last month I had to fight to zoom in on something in PowerPoint. Pagination in Azure ML randomly broke, it took them a month to fix it. Atlassian is also a bug factory, but I did not expect anything better of them. Each UI update they did to Confluence and Jira just made everything more confusing in the last 10 years.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?"}, {"id": 777626944, "item_id": 48601684, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601684", "by": "gus_massa", "date": "2026-06-19", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "Powerpoint is on the other extreme, so every formula is painful", "excerpt": "Popwerpoint! In Beamer is too easy to add formulas and difficult to add graphics, so people present walllllllllllls of formulas. Powerpoint is on the other extreme, so every formula is painful and you use as few as possible. [Mathematician, but now I'm mostly working in applications to Physics.] Anyway, for my last talk I needed a lot of graphics of polynomials, so I used Beamer with a few macros of Tikz to make cons", "context": "Mathematician working in applications to Physics", "use_case": "scientific presentations", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What do you use for scientific presentations?"}, {"id": 772110848, "item_id": 48256928, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256928", "by": "JKCalhoun", "date": "2026-05-24", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "a few minutes trying various styles in PowerPoint", "excerpt": "I (perhaps mistakenly) saw the article as metaphor. 50 hours to draw a line graph vs. a few minutes trying various styles in PowerPoint. Stop letting machines make graphs, pay a draftsman like we used to do! (I'm fairly dense though, so I probably completely missed that the author was instead simply espousing the joys of learning a new handicraft.)", "context": "", "use_case": "making graphs", "switched_from": "", "story": "I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph"}, {"id": 771830753, "item_id": 48239422, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48239422", "by": "bojta-lepenye", "date": "2026-05-22", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I made all of the diagrams in PowerPoint myself", "excerpt": "Thank you so much. Yes, the book is self-published. For the typesetting, I used https://reedsy.com/ . I made all of the diagrams in PowerPoint myself, and just inserted them as high-quality images.", "context": "self-published author", "use_case": "book diagrams", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking"}, {"id": 770877537, "item_id": 48179846, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179846", "by": "haritha-j", "date": "2026-05-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "there's an AI version now built into microsoft powerpoint", "excerpt": "Background removal. that's the main thing i used photoshop for. Last week I noticed that there's an AI version now built into microsoft powerpoint. I have almost no use for photoshop now.", "context": "", "use_case": "background removal", "switched_from": "Photoshop", "story": "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"}, {"id": 764914832, "item_id": 47807177, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807177", "by": "HongKongPhooey", "date": "2026-04-17", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "when PowerPoint was invented as it would kill all graphic design jobs", "excerpt": "I recall reading comments like this when PowerPoint was invented as it would kill all graphic design jobs. The absolute reverse happened. It created an entirely new industry. There is no AI today, or in the near future, that can combine human emotive story telling with impactful design, animated flow and interactivity. Yes it can create flattened boring 'documents' with no passion or depth. I for one would never want", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "ChatGPT for Excel"}, {"id": 763467008, "item_id": 47716688, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716688", "by": "dotcoma", "date": "2026-04-10", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "If there\u2019s no alternative to PowerPoint, that should be treated as a plus, not as a problem.", "excerpt": "If there\u2019s no alternative to PowerPoint, that should be treated as a plus, not as a problem.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins"}, {"id": 763466704, "item_id": 47716669, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716669", "by": "kombine", "date": "2026-04-10", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "There is really no alternative to PowerPoint on Linux, unfortunately.", "excerpt": "Actually, it's the exact opposite. There is really no alternative to PowerPoint on Linux, unfortunately. I'm saying this as someone who's used Linux for 20 years now.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins"}, {"id": 762232339, "item_id": 47639521, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639521", "by": "NikolaNovak", "date": "2026-04-04", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it works shockingly well, with minor but important caveats", "excerpt": "I use onenote as a personal note taking system. For shared artifacts we use word, excel or PowerPoint in corporate onedrive and it works shockingly well, with minor but important caveats - you can't usually edit the same exact box at the same time, and it can get confused with offline changes by multiple people. But online changes by multiple simultaneous people seems to work really well. I especially enjoy when one ", "context": "", "use_case": "shared presentations", "switched_from": "", "story": "Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor"}, {"id": 760587920, "item_id": 47536745, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536745", "by": "prewett", "date": "2026-03-26", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "A light background just screams \"PowerPoint presentation\".", "excerpt": "I think the reason that I like dark mode is that I have had floaters in my eyes since at least age 14. They stand out against a bright white window background, but I don't notice them at all on a dark window with light text. Or maybe it's just because that's how IBM PC DOS, BASICA, etc., as well as the VT100, VT220, VT300s that I used did it. (Also, I think displays should paint with light, and having a white backgro", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green (2025)"}, {"id": 758600256, "item_id": 47412516, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47412516", "by": "madcaptenor", "date": "2026-03-17", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "To be presented as a talk track to the Gettysburg Powerpoint", "excerpt": "To be presented as a talk track to the Gettysburg Powerpoint: https://norvig.com/Gettysburg/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"}, {"id": 757589826, "item_id": 47349364, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47349364", "by": "neomantra", "date": "2026-03-12", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "never going back to Keynote/PowerPoint", "excerpt": "I gave a similar presentation in January which covers the AI features that emerged in 2025 that culminated in the step-function in capability in Nov'25 and where I went from there.... (certainly my GitHub activity is bright green since) The presentation was created with Claude Code to prove itself; never going back to Keynote/PowerPoint. Press 'X' key to disable \"safe mode\". Prompts are in the repo. https://neomantra", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI productivity gains are 10%, not 10x"}, {"id": 756476992, "item_id": 47279812, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47279812", "by": "Animats", "date": "2026-03-06", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Then came PowerPoint.", "excerpt": "Corporate jargon is a relatively recent development in business history.[1] It wasn't seen much until the 1950s and 1960s, when \"organization development\" and management consulting became an industry. Peter Drucker seems to have popularized it in the 1980s. Then came PowerPoint. Before that it was more of a political and religious style of communication. In those areas, speeches and texts designed to be popular but n", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Workers who love 'synergizing paradigms' might be bad at their jobs"}, {"id": 751922979, "item_id": 46995186, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46995186", "by": "beklein", "date": "2026-02-12", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "not with PowerPoint itself but with AI coding agents", "excerpt": "The end result would be a normal PPT presentation, check https://sli.dev as an easy start, ask Codex/Claude/... to generate the slides using that framework with data from something.md. The interesting part here is generating these otherwise boring slide decks not with PowerPoint itself but with AI coding agents and a master slides, AGENTS.md context. I\u2019ll be showing this to a small group (normally members only) at IP", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT\u20115.3\u2011Codex\u2011Spark"}, {"id": 750295667, "item_id": 46893479, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46893479", "by": "wolvoleo", "date": "2026-02-04", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "PowerPoint still uses the old overhead projector transparent slide paradigm", "excerpt": "I don't agree, I use it all the time. I never use the 'real' office at home, though I do at work. And I'm really happy with it. It works fine, it's pretty light and it runs on every OS without me having to use a substandard web version. I understand their copying the MS Office look and feel because that muscle memory is key to converting users. I like the way they didn't go all-in on those ribbons which have always b", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft's Pivotal AI Product Is Running into Big Problems"}, {"id": 746376962, "item_id": 46648560, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648560", "by": "wpm", "date": "2026-01-16", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "the \"presenter awkwardly clicking around through an un-played Powerpoint\" to be really unprofessional", "excerpt": "I believe the old DAL stuff is gone, maybe somewhere around version 30? I used to have awful crashes all the time, either Zoom's capture host process (caphost) would crash, necessitating completely restarting the app, or OBS would crash. Now it just installs a camera extension, so yes, I believe it's all on the CMIO APIs. I am mostly broadcasting the desktop view of a second or third computer on my desk, plus slide d", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OBS Studio 32.1.0 Beta 1 available"}, {"id": 743960210, "item_id": 46497513, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46497513", "by": "jamalm1417", "date": "2026-01-05", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "frustrated with the back-and-forth of sharing PowerPoint files", "excerpt": "Hi HN I started this after getting frustrated with the back-and-forth of sharing PowerPoint files and wanting something closer to \u201cslides as code\u201d that works well with version control. That idea evolved into visualise.ink: instead of writing the structure yourself, you describe what you want and AI generates clean, usable visuals for you. The goal isn\u2019t to compete with PowerPoint, but to serve people who want good sl", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Visualise.ink \u2013 generate good-looking slides and infographics from simple text"}, {"id": 743567015, "item_id": 46472938, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46472938", "by": "shetyemanasi", "date": "2026-01-02", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Microsoft PowerPoint", "excerpt": "Location: Europe Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Design: Figma, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Experience and Miro Presentation: Keynote, InVision, Microsoft PowerPoint Project Management: Jira, Kanban Boards, and Trello Prototyping Tools: InVision, Axure RP and Figma Programming: Basic HTML & CSS R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1stXm3PbP-_20SKp-RK-KEPfINGOgR02S/view?usp=drive_", "context": "UI/UX designer, 6+ years", "use_case": "Presentations", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)"}, {"id": 741450817, "item_id": 46340676, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46340676", "by": "tamimio", "date": "2025-12-20", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used to make similar in powerpoint, surprisingly it has good svg/obj support", "excerpt": "This looks great! Would be good to download a ready binary too. I used to make similar in powerpoint, surprisingly it has good svg/obj support, with some creativity you can do wonders. Can the output be exported to common file types? Videos or similar, it would better imo.", "context": "", "use_case": "3D presentations", "switched_from": "", "story": "Immersa: Open-source Web-based 3D Presentation Tool"}, {"id": 741381712, "item_id": 46336357, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46336357", "by": "albert_e", "date": "2025-12-20", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used it once for a fancy presentation and it worked fine.", "excerpt": "interesting -- but i am not sure one would want to build an entire presentation with a lot of 3D effects and animations IMO this would be a good tool to have among many -- to use judiciously only when needed. -- Maybe if we could somehow integrate this capability into existing tools (not sure how). (I think MS Powerpoint has some 3D objects and animations -- but I dont see it used much in business. I used it once for", "context": "", "use_case": "3D objects and animations in slides", "switched_from": "", "story": "Immersa: Open-source Web-based 3D Presentation Tool"}, {"id": 740962384, "item_id": 46310149, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46310149", "by": "brzezmac", "date": "2025-12-18", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "I'm building a \"mail merge for PowerPoint\": - https://pptxmailmerge.com Still in MVP mode - but it already made some sales. What's different about it from similar solutions is the way you can get data from an Excel file (most other companies have the JSON and CSV figured out). It supports Excel style addressing so it's pretty flexible on how you reach for the data inside a PowerPoint template (access every sheet, eve", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 \u2013 Show and tell"}, {"id": 739182400, "item_id": 46198900, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46198900", "by": "codethief", "date": "2025-12-08", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I had to use PowerPoint in the browser for the first time (I use Linux, so no native app) and\u2026 it turns out it's completely and utterly broken?", "excerpt": "I don't use Office365 much, apart from maybe Outlook (which I have to, for some of my work). However, the other day I had to use PowerPoint in the browser for the first time (I use Linux, so no native app) and\u2026 it turns out it's completely and utterly broken? I mean, the document looked nothing like the presentation my coworker ended up giving (using the desktop application on Windows(?)). What I saw in the browser w", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "viewing presentations", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"}, {"id": 739086050, "item_id": 46192878, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192878", "by": "quietbritishjim", "date": "2025-12-08", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "It's very odd that they propose PowerPoint as the Publisher replacement.", "excerpt": "I used Publisher (2.0! and then 95) quite a bit in the mid to late 1990s. I haven't used it since then because Word now has all the features that were previously exclusive to Publisher, so its purpose has evaporated. It's certainly true that Word has bugs and frustrations but I'd be surprised if Publisher didn't too. It's very odd that they propose PowerPoint as the Publisher replacement. How do you create a fold out", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"}, {"id": 739080273, "item_id": 46192517, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192517", "by": "TheJoeMan", "date": "2025-12-08", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "PowerPoint, despite it being unable to", "excerpt": "They also are actively decreasing the value by sunsetting Publisher in October 2026 [0]. Hilariously, the suggested replacement is PowerPoint, despite it being unable to natively open .pub files. The solution for that? Run a powershell script to convert all your publisher files to (uneditable) PDF. There are many memes about inserting photos into Word, and the content flying around and breaking. My pet theory is that", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"}, {"id": 735102610, "item_id": 45943913, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45943913", "by": "somethingsome", "date": "2025-11-16", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I went back to PowerPoint, and with the same time it took me to make one lecture note in quadro, I could make 4 lectures notes in PowerPoint, and they were better.", "excerpt": "I used reveal.js and quadro to make lecture slides. And as much as I wanted to like it, it never worked out. For easy presentations and pitch deck I'm sure it works well.. But the people behind those tools do not seem to have the experience of working with structured lecture notes. When teaching you need many tools, such as background removal from images, easy cropping, arrows, animating the text in a predefined orde", "context": "teaches lectures", "use_case": "lecture slides", "switched_from": "Quarto", "story": "Writing a book with Quarto"}, {"id": 732940992, "item_id": 45808812, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45808812", "by": "tetris11", "date": "2025-11-04", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "making stickman animations in powerpoint of all things", "excerpt": "Same, I had been making stickman animations in powerpoint of all things, before a friend mentioned I should try FlashMX. I even made this terrible thing as my first foray into AS2: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/408469", "context": "", "use_case": "making stickman animations", "switched_from": "", "story": "When stick figures fought"}]}