alt Hacker NewsWould be interesting to run this through Malus [1] or literally just Claude Code and get open source Claude Code out of it.
I jest, but in a world where these models have been trained on gigatons of open source I don't even see the moral problem. IANAL, don't actually do this.
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No real reason to do that, they say Claude Code is written by Claude, which means it has no copyright. Just use the code directly
The problem is the oauth and their stance on bypassing that. You'd want to use your subscription, and they probably can detect that and ban users. They hold all the power there.
I love the irony on seeing the contribution counter at 0
Who'd have thought, the audience who doesn't want to give back to the opensource community, giving 0 contributions...
Oh god, I was so close to believing Malus was a real product and not satire.
This has happened before. It was called anon kode.
What are they worried about? Someone taking the company's job? Hehe
Eh, the value is the unlimited Max plan which they have rightfully banned from third-party use.
People simply want Opus without fear of billing nightmare.
That’s like 99% of it.
Malus is not a real project btw, it's a parody:
“Let's end open source together with this one simple trick”
https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026/talk/SUVS7G/feedback/
Malus is translating code into text, and from text back into code.
It gives the illusion of clean room implementation that some companies abuse.
The irony is that ChatGPT/Claude answers are all actually directly derived from open-source code, so...