Re:Malus – Clean Room as a Service
by gault8121 on Thursday March 12, 2026 @07:15PM
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This site is not satire. You can actually pay on Stripe and it will create code for you. The site is written with satirical language but it is a real service.
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Re:Malus – Clean Room as a Service
by madeofpalk on Thursday March 12, 2026 @07:45PM
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Being real doesn't make it not satire.
Yes but all of the commenters think this is a fake site created ironically. It isn't. It is a company doing the evil thing it is mocking.
If doing evil things satirically with extremely poor result, does that become a positive outcome?
I mean maybe you can pay, it can just use some 8B model to give you unsubstantiated crap.
I consider this a form of performance art. To really expose the absurdity of the system, you can't just point at the cracks; you need to actually stick your fingers in.
Re:Malus – Clean Room as a Service
by Guillaume86 on Friday March 13, 2026 @11:47AM
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Yes it's even more effective this way IMO, we will probably see some 11/10 mental gymnastics from people condemning this and failing to apply the same standards to billions dollars corps.
Part of the point here is that the systems are fundamentally broken, more broken than they were before when we already thought they were broken.
Some people look at that and think "I suppose we should keep propping this system up as much as possible; the less propping the more immediate harm is caused to people/infrastructure/society".
The people behind this site/talk clearly don't buy into that. The way they see it, a reckoning must come. We might as well get it over with as soon as possible. Rip off the band-aid so to speak. So maybe we should shake the system and show that its falling apart.
Re:Malus – Clean Room as a Service
by AmbroseBierce on Friday March 13, 2026 @04:03AM
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Sell the same thing you pretend to be satirizing, and HN it's making it go viral for free, real smart move there guys.
The numbers on the front page is for sure a joke.
Unless they already burned 20000% of their runway on tokens.