I clicked through and browsed the comments and clicked links. It does appear the links are not working as described. Is there something you’re throwing and I’m not catching? :)
The relevant non functional links should be listed in the comments. The OP was complaining they were not able to include links directly. I'm not sure about [1] [2] [3] in the main post but the show hn [A] or [B] thread should afaik have not been an issue.
Ah, good call, I should have included the threads, thanks! I tried several variants of the GitHub URL and the main web site and got errors until I cut it back to what I posted and rushed out of work to have dinner with my wife.
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 this.
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
Oh man, that’s disappointing. We implemented this in a test environment and have been hammering on it. Would love to know what’s going on as it solves a real pain point for us.
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.
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
> 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:
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).
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.
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
I think this (if it is what happened) is a perfect demonstration of the dynamics. If you use AI to do things you couldn't have done on your own, you're copying off someone else's homework and the real risk is that you don't know who you're copying from, but they probably do.
I would guess that they have lost access to a resource lately ... I've read there's a lot of that going around atm.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=thisisjedr
[A] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947229
[B] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48228411
[1] https://docx-editor.dev/
[2] https://github.com/eigenpal/docx-js-editor
[3] https://github.com/eigenpal/docx-editor
Edit for additional show hn thread
I found docx to be a very well documented format and a surprisingly good fit for this.
https://tinycld.org has a live demo
I thought of it because this project said they used AI
( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085993 )
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.
How long do you have?
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
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
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=userplane.io
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
If anything it’s DOCX itself that was the vector!
Understanding DOCX Malware and Hidden Threats
https://cloudmersive.com/article/Understanding-DOCX-Malware-...
Hackers using Weaponized Office Document to Exploit Windows Search RCE
https://cybersecuritynews.com/office-document-to-exploit-win...