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Malus: Clean room engineering of any open-source dependency (malus.sh)
8 points by ahub 103 days ago
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Hasnep 103 days 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.

[1] https://retributionai.com/

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pabs3 99 days ago
MALUS is a joke:

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SUVS7G-lets_end_open_...

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ahub 103 days ago
I share the analysis, and am stunned by the gaping loophole they are exploiting. Is it the end of open-source?
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moeffju 101 days ago
It's pretty clearly satire.
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