Re:Show HN: Claude Code rewritten as a bash script
by dghong on Friday April 03, 2026 @02:42AM
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This is built by studying the leaked source.
"Clean-room rewrite" doesn't mean much when
you've read the original first — that's not
clean-room, that's copying with extra steps.
This is theft, plain and simple.
The stars on the original claw-code repo were earned through the leak, not the work. Riding that wave with another clone doesn't make it original engineering.
Also worth noting: this wasn't submitted as Show HN — it's being promoted through comment threads instead. Make of that what you will.
Real open-source respects both the letter and the spirit of IP law.
Its worth following: https://github.com/instructkr/claw-code
[0]: my article: https://smileplease.mataroa.blog/blog/claw-code-reaches-100k...