LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features • Hacker News Board

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Post by tiahura » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 2:25 PM UTC

Hopefully LibreOffice is one of the projects that gets free Pro Max accounts from A and O.

Corporations have been trying Star/Open/LibreOffice migrations for literally 30 years at this point. And, at the pace it’s been going, it will probably take another 30 for it to reach Word 95 polish.

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Post by rf15 » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 2:26 PM UTC

smokel wrote: post #6

The number of weekly downloads has simply been increasing over time, due to growing popularity. Calling each new high "record-breaking" is a bit meaningless. Unix timestamp counter breaks record after writing this comment.

Congratulation to your new unix timestamp record! (and yes, you too, nth reader!)

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Post by podgietaru » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 2:28 PM UTC

smokel wrote: post #6

The number of weekly downloads has simply been increasing over time, due to growing popularity. Calling each new high "record-breaking" is a bit meaningless. Unix timestamp counter breaks record after writing this comment.

What? A Unix timestamp literally cannot ever be lower. Its a completely assinine comparison isn't it?

This is comparative.

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Post by dotinvictim » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 2:28 PM UTC

enough with this anti ai noise resistance is futile it's getting popular due to improved ui

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Post by utopiah » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 2:30 PM UTC

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #9

Related: Yes, no (built-in) AI is now a feature https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49553350

So related it's in the blog post.

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Post by jgbuddy » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 2:31 PM UTC

Could also be due to the fact that every codex install includes a copy of libreoffice

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Post by allears » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 2:31 PM UTC

dotinvictim wrote: post #14

enough with this anti ai noise resistance is futile it's getting popular due to improved ui

Nonsense. I can (and do) resist a lot of things. Society in general may well be screwed, but I'll at least hold onto a bit of self-respect.

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Post by empath75 » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 2:33 PM UTC

piker wrote: post #2

It’s also been baked into Codex. Go figure

I think it's not baked into codex, but codex has either been instructed to download it when asked to edit word docs/excel spreadsheets, or it picked it up during training.

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Post by rationalist » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 2:34 PM UTC

dotinvictim wrote: post #14

enough with this anti ai noise resistance is futile it's getting popular due to improved ui

I'm not anti-AI (I have a ChatGPT subscription), I just don't like bloat and nagging.

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Post by r053bud » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 2:35 PM UTC

dotinvictim wrote: post #14

enough with this anti ai noise resistance is futile it's getting popular due to improved ui

You’re wrong. Despite its usefulness in our profession, AI is deeply unpopular with the general public and products that don’t include it are rapidly gaining in popularity. People are tired of AI being shoved down their throats without consent.