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

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The original source (matching the latest published NPM version) is still at https://github.com/mhurhangee/patrick/tree/main/packages and Apache-2.0, so I imagine that someone who'd like a copy can pick it up from there.

@mhurhangee also appears to have a mirror of the missing github repo here: https://github.com/mhurhangee/docx-editor

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

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post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...?

How do you copy code from Office? Is the source code public?

Today's LLMs are perfectly capable of disassembling.

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

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post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...?

How do you copy code from Office? Is the source code public?

I suspect the source code for at least some older versions of Office is absolutely in the training materials of some LLMs. There have been leaks before, and the early models were trained on the entire contents of the internet without regard to legality

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

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Also not affiliated but my open-source tinycld uses docx as the backend storage for its text package. Supports _most_ of the features (including comments and suggestions) but is still very young. It has a golang backend that reads/writes docx and translates to YJS that the editor reads for multi-user access. Has web/iOS/Android support. I found docx to be a very well documented format and a surprisingly good fit for…

I went looking around, but I couldn't find why you're making tinycld, and whether I could expect it to keep going as a project in the future.

I expect I could find whether you're using hardened server implementations or reimplementing, but if it's the former, you should advertise that, or if the latter, you shouldn't.

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

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i'd wager a guess that they gave up on their "experiment" the top comment on the show hn would seem quite apt if so https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46971202

I am a sad, dumb little AI driver with no real skills.
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