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Buy a plane ticket and go. I once walked 10 miles in Tokyo and never got bored.

I have been exploring reverse engineering using LLMs and Ghidra. A particular interest is in trying to understand how complexity can affect the process. I’m still learning but it’s been a fun way to explore LLMs. Here are my results using opencode https://alexander-hanel.github.io/StressingLLMs/opencode.htm...

It was very feasible. The exploit to propagate via usb was CVE-2010-2568. Odds are you can still find details on it.

A single model was loaded at a time and each model was given a 90 minute timeout. This is how I’m running it (actually an older version because they deleted the repo and replaced it)

https://github.com/MiaAI-Lab/DeepSeek-v4-Flash-One-DGX-Spark

> Claude Max plan I already pay for, until its safeguards cut me off

I hate to say it but this is why security researchers are moving to Chinese models with no safeguards. I literally hit cyber safeguards in codex 5 minutes ago.

In my benchmark Deepseek-v4-flash did much better than Qwen 3.8 27B at reverse engineering.

https://alexander-hanel.github.io/StressingLLMs/

So nice to see Christopher Domas posting code again.

I just learned the hard way that codex removes resets once the weekly cycle starts.

Hi OP, I would be careful if you profit from this project in anyway. Nintendo is not a company that takes reverse engineering of their hardware or games lightly. You will probably hear from their lawyers next week :(

For anyone interested in this style of art, I’d recommend checking out Margaret Kilgallen’s work. She had similar ideas in San Francisco during the 90s.

Personally, I see the self-help industry dying because people are starting to realize that it’s just a network of individuals selling products, promoting each other’s products, and creating new avenues to sell more products. I refer to it as the “self-help mafia.” Tim Ferriss kind of created it.

Brace yourself, hybrid and return to office propaganda are coming.

So weird that GitHub requires a login to view their BlueHammer repo.

https://github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse/BlueHammer

Does anyone have a link to how the crack works? I would love to see something more technical.

“!=“ is not a valid input for titles on HN.

The appeal for me is not having to constantly repeat instructions. Imagine having to repeat dietary restrictions every time you ask for a recipe.

Everyone should visit Córdoba, Spain once in their life.

Another option is explore winget and chocolaty. Most build tools and compilers can be installed via the command line on windows. Ask your favorite LLM to create a powershell script to install them all.

Here are my go to: Play video games on my steam deck or PlayStation portal, slow kettlebell exercises, YouTube videos, read books I keep on my desk, browse projects on github that people I follow have starred, tidy my workspace, sit on the front porch or go for a walk.

Things I don’t do: browse slack, social networking or news.

Murakami’s fiction novels are extremely different from “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”. If you want to try another non-fiction book of his check-out “Underground : The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche”, I loved it. If you go the fiction route “Kafka on the Shore” and “A Wild Sheep Chase” are a good starting point. Avoid some of his longer works unless you enjoy his style.

Here are the 29 books that I read but I probably read another 100 children books.

• How AI Works: From Sorcery to Science — Ronald T. Kneusel

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values — Robert M. Pirsig

• Martín & Meditations on the South Valley — Jimmy Santiago Baca

• Akira, Vol. 6 — Katsuhiro Otomo

• Akira, Vol. 5 — Katsuhiro Otomo

• Akira, Vol. 4 — Katsuhiro Otomo

• Akira, Vol. 3 — Katsuhiro Otomo

• Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

• Akira, Vol. 2 — Katsuhiro Otomo

• Poems & Prayers — Matthew McConaughey

• Akira, Vol. 1 — Katsuhiro Otomo

• Time’s Arrow — Martin Amis

• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter — Stephen Graham Jones

• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly — Anthony Bourdain

• Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism — Sarah Wynn-Williams

• Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever — Joseph Cox

• Source Code: My Beginnings — Bill Gates

• The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America — Mark Whitaker

• Good Inside: A Practical Guide to Resilient Parenting Prioritizing Connection Over Correction — Becky Kennedy // I would not recommend this book to anyone.

• Interior Chinatown — Charles Yu

• Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection — John Green

• Dark Matter — Blake Crouch

• Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things — Adam Grant

• Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D — Fabien Sanglard

• Jurassic Park — Michael Crichton

• Killing Commendatore — Haruki Murakami

• James — Percival Everett

• Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre — Max Brooks

• Last Argument of Kings — Joe Abercrombie

That site had great layout.

For anyone else curious about Kochenderfer's books

https://mykel.kochenderfer.com/textbooks/

Thank you for the link.

No disrespect but Windhawk’s process injection loader code was cut and paste from malware source code. I can’t imagine how many AV/EDR alerts that project has generated from using ROR API hashing and PEB symbol traversing.

Care to share the scrapped data? I would love to play around with it.

It’s been a little bit since I watched it but I recall this playlist being useful/interesting

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJRRppeFlVGIvcTQNISPTxvNm...