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RgrTheShrubbrlast Monday at 8:43 PM1 replyview on HN

Having just recently heard about Ghidra and started using it with Claude. I am absolutely blown away how little resistance it has decompiling old Win95/98 binaries. It's turning into a bit of a hobby of mine to take old software, decompile and find hidden treasures like images or messages.


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Chu4eenolast Tuesday at 3:31 PM

There's this unfortunate common misconception (that LLMs luckily don't tend to share) that reverse engineering is illegal or immoral, when it's both a great source of learning, a necessity for things like interop/preservation, and even has explicit carve-outs in the copyright laws of many/sane countries.

I know my government has a good amount of reverse engineers on the payroll (mostly in the security services).