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Re: The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted

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Post by altairprime »

hypercain wrote: post #5

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Your account was created 5 hours ago, and you’ve already had two Show HNs flagged? That’s ‘email the site mods and ask for participation guidance’ territory. Perhaps you posted them under an account that wasn’t participating otherwise on the site and/or was named after a business rather than a person? In any case, bad form to re-promote your projects in an unrelated new post rather than reaching out to the mods. Adapt your behavior to be 95% contributions of posts and comments that are unrelated to your own projects/investments or else you’ll continue seeing hostility and flags to your work.

Re: The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted

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Post by mindcrime »

hypercain wrote: post #5

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Nothing weird about it. The HN guidelines[1] make it clear, IMO, that while some self-promotion is fine, the intent here is NOT to use the site primarily (or exclusively) for self-promotion. The account that submitted the userplane.io link had only ever submitted two links, and both were to userplane.io. What do you expect to happen?

Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

> After a few more experiences like that, I've mostly stopped posting because it doesn't feel like the effort is worth it

Ironically this is exactly the wrong response. You should post more, but more stuff that's simply intellectually interesting, and not just to promote your own stuff. But if your only reason for being here is self-promotion, then you're right... not worth it. shrug

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted

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Post by conartist6 »

conartist6 wrote: post #10
rolph wrote: post #3

it is forseeable that MS would be very interested in taking a security stance vs a very possible vector.

I was going to guess that they accused the author of copying code from Office. Was AI used in the project? Perhaps a model regurgitated copyrighted code leading to a sternly worded notice from legal...?

Ooooh yeah. Looking through the author's past posts: "got a lot of skepticism because we're developing heavily with AI"

So AI was in use. Then the author says that following the spec alone wasn't enough to get it working, they got "active community feedback" and fed that feedback into the AI until it worked just like Word. I have to think that if there were ANY conditions under which a model might output code that Microsoft legal would threaten to sue you for, these would be them

Re: The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted

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Post by rjsw »

darkteflon wrote: post #9
d3Xt3r wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's plenty of open-source docx editors though? What makes eigenpal's editor so special?

Could you recommend your picks in the space? Edit (since I can’t seem to reply directly) - to the commenter suggesting LibreOffice below: quite different things. This was a library for implementing reasonably high fidelity docx viewing / editing in the browser.

What is wrong with LibreOffice?

Re: The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted

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Post by fsckboy »

what was that item from just a day or so ago where an opensource project had said they developed using AI, and a developer said "take it down, you copied it from us"

I thought of it because this project said they used AI

( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085993 )

Re: The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted

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Post by hypercain »

mindcrime wrote: post #12
hypercain wrote: post #5

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Nothing weird about it. The HN guidelines[1] make it clear, IMO, that while some self-promotion is fine, the intent here is NOT to use the site primarily (or exclusively) for self-promotion. The account that submitted the userplane.io link had only ever submitted two links, and both were to userplane.io. What do you expect to happen? Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of…

> had only ever submitted two links, and both were to userplane.io

That doesn't appear to be correct. The account's public submission history shows multiple submissions beyond userplane.io. Here's the submission history for reference:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=wizenheimer

Edit: Looks like my original comment was flagged too, woah

Re: The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted

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Post by mindcrime »

hypercain wrote: post #18
mindcrime wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nothing weird about it. The HN guidelines[1] make it clear, IMO, that while some self-promotion is fine, the intent here is NOT to use the site primarily (or exclusively) for self-promotion. The account that submitted the userplane.io link had only ever submitted two links, and both were to userplane.io. What do you expect to happen? Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of…

> had only ever submitted two links, and both were to userplane.io That doesn't appear to be correct. The account's public submission history shows multiple submissions beyond userplane.io. Here's the submission history for reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=wizenheimer Edit: Looks like my original comment was flagged too, woah

You're right, I was looking at submissions for userplane.io[1] and over-fixated on it only being submitted twice. My mistake. Nonetheless, the basic principle is the same. Looking at their submission history it appears to be almost all self-promotional and correspondingly many of the submissions are [dead]. As far as I can tell, that's what happens here. (aside: I'm just commenting based on observation of the years, I'm not anybody "official" here or anything).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=userplane.io

Re: The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted

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Post by jubilanti »

rjsw wrote: post #14
darkteflon wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you recommend your picks in the space? Edit (since I can’t seem to reply directly) - to the commenter suggesting LibreOffice below: quite different things. This was a library for implementing reasonably high fidelity docx viewing / editing in the browser.

What is wrong with LibreOffice?

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