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Ask HN: What are your reverse engineering skills?

2•alganet•5h ago
Hi!

I was wondering what the reverse engineering skills of people here in HN are.

From simple things like trying to mess with systems you assume to be based on regular expression, to more elaborate ones, down to more increasingly advanced techniques.

I'm not particularly interested in bit shaving stuff like hex editors or things like that, but if you're proud of something in that regard feel free to share.

Prompt engineering is quite outside this question (it seems that AI folk see themselves apart from other areas, so it's really not relevant to more principled reverse engineering techniques).

Postdocs get more equipment time when applications are anonymized

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02356-6
1•rntn•45s ago•0 comments

The AOL hacking tool that invented phishing

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/aol-hacking-tool-invented-phishing-121300059.html
1•cainxinth•1m ago•0 comments

Obsidian Tricks: Entity Notes

https://adventures.michaelfbryan.com/posts/obsidian-tricks/entity-notes/
1•MichaelFBryan•2m ago•1 comments

Bill Would Fine Social Media Companies $5M per Day for Not Fighting 'Terrorism'

https://reason.com/2025/07/24/this-bill-would-fine-social-media-companies-5-million-every-day-for-not-fighting-terrorism/
1•pseudolus•3m ago•0 comments

K-State study finds odd twist in galaxy rotations

https://www.k-state.edu/news/articles/2025/03/lior-shamir-james-webb-space-telescope-spinning-galaxies.html
1•georgehill•4m ago•0 comments

Minimal Scala Container Images Using Nix

https://blog.aiono.dev/posts/minimal-scala-container-images-using-nix.html
1•kugurerdem•6m ago•0 comments

KnowMinder

https://knowminder.com/en
1•LoicF•6m ago•1 comments

Debian isn't waiting for 2038 to blow up, switches to 64-bit time for everything

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/y2k38_bug_debian/
2•pseudolus•8m ago•0 comments

The Beauty of Ideals

https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-beauty-of-ideals-b3dccf72
1•dotcoma•9m ago•0 comments

Genome-wide study makes 'quantum leap' in understanding stuttering

https://www.science.org/content/article/genome-wide-study-makes-quantum-leap-understanding-stuttering
1•pseudolus•10m ago•0 comments

Tandy Corporation, Part 4 – By Bradford Morgan White

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/tandy-corporation-part-4
1•rbanffy•14m ago•0 comments

Configuring Subdomains in Development with Lvh.me

https://matthewhutchinson.net/2011/1/10/configuring-subdomains-in-development-with-lvhme
1•waaldev•17m ago•0 comments

Jujutsu for Busy Devs, Part 2: "How Do I?"

https://maddie.wtf/posts/2025-07-21-jujutsu-for-busy-devs/entry/1
2•lukastyrychtr•20m ago•0 comments

Paul Bugas, Director of a Secret Doomsday Bunker, Is Dead at 96

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/us/politics/paul-bugas-dead.html
1•bookofjoe•23m ago•0 comments

The Mask-Off Moment for Digital Identity

https://newdesigncongress.org/en/note/2025/the-mask-off-moment-for-digital-identity/
4•sgwil•23m ago•0 comments

JPMorgan spooks fintechs with plans to charge for access to customer data

https://www.ft.com/content/85ccc517-4a34-4221-aec7-4d8a72a21f35
1•cebert•25m ago•1 comments

Hierarchical Reasoning Model – 1k training samples SoTA reasoning v/s CoT

https://github.com/sapientinc/HRM
1•dreamer7•25m ago•1 comments

Simple CLI Task Manager in Python (JSON-Based)

https://github.com/oheyek/Task-Tracker-CLI
1•oheyek•28m ago•1 comments

Crowd Funding Success? I must be rich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgIxnpIiDv8
1•iamflimflam1•31m ago•0 comments

Secure Overseas E-Commerce Review Accounts, Avoid Detection by Platforms

1•yt1314•33m ago•0 comments

Nearlyfreespeech.net: A quick note to our queer members

https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2025/07/27/a-quick-note-to-our-queer-members/
2•greenburger•33m ago•0 comments

Drag-and-Drop LLMs: Zero-Shot Prompt-to-Weights

https://jerryliang24.github.io/DnD/
1•victormustar•35m ago•0 comments

Public SSH Jump and Port Forwarding Server

https://ssh-j.com
2•drmacak•37m ago•0 comments

Tom Lehrer's prank on the NSA that waited 60 years to be discovered

https://bsky.app/profile/opalescentopal.bsky.social/post/3luxxx27nos23
3•ColinWright•43m ago•0 comments

The Vatican Observatory Looks to the Heavens

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/04/the-vatican-observatory-looks-to-the-heavens
1•adrianhon•43m ago•0 comments

Listening to the Nonhuman World: On Strategies for Saving the Biosphere

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/listening-to-the-nonhuman-world-on-strategies-for-saving-the-biosphere/
1•joules77•50m ago•0 comments

Jsonout

https://jsonout.com
1•hxh1246996371•53m ago•0 comments

He is a software engineer at a SF startup, he's also serving 11th year in prison

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/preston-thorpe-is-a-software-engineer-at-a-san-francisco-startup-hes-also-serving-his-11th-year-in-prison/
2•gemanor•53m ago•0 comments

What Happens When Doctors Can't Trust the Government?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/opinion/doctors-government-agencies.html
2•mitchbob•59m ago•1 comments

A.I.-Driven Education: Founded in Texas and Coming to a School Near You

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/politics/ai-alpha-school-austin-texas.html
3•mitchbob•1h ago•1 comments