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Reverse-engineering and whatnot

Reverse engineeringSecurityAI / MLCompilersWindows internals

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14 from 10 May 2017 to 3 Aug 2026
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2026 3

  1. The Minutiae of Tool-calling
  2. Snapcompact: SoTA Compaction — Instant, Local, Free. Pick 3
  3. I Improved 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed.

2025 2

  1. Optimizing Bracha's Reliable Broadcast: Shaving Rounds off a 37-Year-Old Algorithm
  2. Reverse Engineering Hyperliquid ft. SetYesterdayUserVlm

2024 1

  1. PgC: Garbage collecting Patchguard away

2021 1

  1. Speculating the entire x86-64 Instruction Set In Seconds with This One Weird Trick

2020 1

  1. Writing an optimizing IL compiler, for dummies, by a dummy: 0x1 Symbolic Expressions

2019 1

  1. ByePg: Defeating Patchguard using Exception-hooking

2018 4

  1. Arbitrary Code Execution at Ring 0 using CVE-2018-8897
  2. Making the Perfect Injector: Abusing Windows Address Sanitization and CoW
  3. Escaping SMEP Hell: Exploiting Capcom Driver In a Safe Manner
  4. Splitting Data from Code, Forgotten x86 Feature: Segmentation

2017 1

  1. Faster Results with Deep Neural Networks via Gradient Equalization