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Malus: Clean room engineering of any open-source dependency | Better HN
Malus: Clean room engineering of any open-source dependency
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ahub
24d ago
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Hasnep
23d ago
I've thought about doing this as a joke ever since LLMs started being used for generating code, I even made something [1] adjacent to it for April fools last year. It's weird to see someone taking the idea seriously.
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https://retributionai.com/
pabs3
19d ago
MALUS is a joke:
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SUVS7G-lets_end_open_...
ahub
OP
24d ago
I share the analysis, and am stunned by the gaping loophole they are exploiting. Is it the end of open-source?
moeffju
22d ago
It's pretty clearly satire.
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