Note for people who just briefly skimmed the site: This is satire.

At least you think that this is satire, until the author receives a DMCA from one of the big corps saying that he leaked the transcript of their last meeting

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andriy_koval 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

its partial satire. I kinda believe Claude/Codex spill lots of OSS code without license attribution for many millions of devs already.

	▲	tonyedgecombe an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It wouldn't be funny if it wasn't close to the truth.

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kifler 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Too late. Someone's senior executive management has probably already seen it and spinning up a new project to implement it.

	▲	civvv 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Luckily LLM’s are nowhere near capable enough to pull this off for anything other than the likes of isEven()

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chilipepperhott 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah, thank you. I was starting to get a little heated.

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embedding-shape 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Same, I got as far as "Finally, liberation from open source license obligations." until I went back to the comments.

	▲	frizlab 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		haha did the same. that being said I’m convinced some people do think AI reimplementation actually means cleanroom…

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Lalabadie 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The situation is a bit too Torment Nexus-y for my comfort, thank you very much

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scatbot an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I know this is satire, but I would wish to see something like this for liberating proprietary & closed-source hardware drivers.

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TimTheTinker 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't know - if you upload a package.json with any dependencies that map to real npmjs.com packages, it does lead you to a Stripe payment page which appears to be real... and it appears you'd be sending real money.

Maybe that's part of the joke, though :)

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bananzamba 21 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Malus Corporation = EvilCorp

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schmeichel 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Thank you for pointing that out, I genuinely was scratching my head and questioning if this site was serious.

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adampunk 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

For now

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dcchambers 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

For now...

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tgtweak 4 hours ago | parent [-]

The best satire is that which becomes reality.

	▲	TehCorwiz 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I would posit that the best satire is that which holds a clear enough mirror to society that people choose for it to not come to pass.
	▲	intrasight 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Best comment here!

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lo_zamoyski 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

W.r.t. intent, yes. But w.r.t. content, we are long past a situation where it is unrealistic enough to function as satire.

While such tactics would render certain OSS software licenses absurd, the tactic itself, as a means to get around them, is entirely sound. It just reveals the flawed presupposition of such licenses. And I'm not sure there is really any way to patch them up now.

	▲	zozbot234 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It would also entirely obviate the need for those very same OSS licenses, if LLMs can simply do a clean-room reimplementation of any copywritten software whatsoever.
	▲	kshacker 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It will be like Galaxy Quest - they saw the historical records, copied them and then ... still needed humans to help them :)

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Robdel12 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It legit got me. An actual "whaaaaaatttt?" out loud and then I had to figure out why it was the top of HN haha.

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jajuuka 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I was wondering. I had heard chardet story and wouldn't be surprised to see others moving into that same space.