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

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.

Thanks, I think you should put that up if it isn't, or at least link from About page if it is. "If you're talking about the various services it offers like imap/webdav, I'm using well established golang libraries" That's exactly what I'd hope to see said somewhere as a naive person. Maybe security people would say "that's only 50% of the attack surface!!!" but I'm not one so it sounds good to me.

What is wrong with LibreOffice?

didn't know he was the source of this until after i posted, but i'm not surprised. he's certainly been on quite the bender lately indeed. but the way this usually works, i'd wager a guess he always has been.

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

> Looks like my original comment was flagged too Self-linking via sockpuppet accounts isn’t welcome here, especially when it’s as off-topic as yours, and it’s no surprise our community mass-flagged you. Email the mods for further guidance if you find this outcome objectionable; they’re more adept at offering counsel on how to participate at HN as a community contributor rather than as a self-promoter. 10 months ago, you commented on your own post; then, 18 days ago, you linked your own work in a general Show HN post. Given your account age, extremely low karma, and total absence of comments on anyone else’s posts for ten months in between two self-links, one can reasonably consider your account to be ‘solely here for the marketing clicks’ which would lead users to flag your submissions at a higher rate than average, as you’ve discovered. If you stop posting self-links for the next ten months and show steady participation in other people’s posts throughout that time — without referring to ‘my work/project/site’ in literally every single comment, as some have tried before you — then when you post a Show HN in ten months, users will likely not flag you for spamming us with ‘look at me! look at me! look at me’ posts (and if they do, you can reasonably ask the mods to inflag it, and they might do so!). But the fly-by-night forum spam your account history reveals is so passé and you’ve only made yourself less welcome here by insisting that you haven’t broken any rules, rather than adapting to the ongoing participation behaviors expected of submitters. Either genuinely invest time and energy into this community or move on.

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 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

Today's LLMs are perfectly capable of disassembling.

IP is not the only issue. BTW this discussion is being chilled so now an exercise in abusive DV harvesting. 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...