Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderWhile on the topic, I want to highlight two incredible plugins for Ghidra: https://github.com/jtang613/GhidrAssist And https://github.com/jtang613/GhidrAssistMCP Being able to hook Claude code up to this has made reversing way more productive. Highly recommend!
There's a discouragment the comes in the RE community that to be useful at all you need to be able to write your own exotic packer decoders, but I use Ghidra about once a month for really basic security incident response to pull apart "driver" installer packages to see where they are phoning home to, evaluating enterprise vendor-ware packages looking for hard coded credentials and snoopy telemetry, sometimes I can pull down the second stage of a phishing attempt against…
Someone, with the time to be project maintainer, fork it and license it under the Crockford license. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford#%22Good,_n...
For those wondering what Ghidra is: it's a software reverse engineering (SRE) suite of tools developed by NSA's Research Directorate in support of the Cybersecurity mission. Ghidra website: https://www.ghidra-sre.org/
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 719
- Total comments
- 331
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-03-06 | NSA Ghidra | aritraghosh007 | 2 | 1 |
| 2019-03-06 | Ghidra Software Reverse Engineering Framework | Errorcod3 | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-04-04 | Ghidra source code officially released | killyp | 67 | 7 |
| 2021-01-06 | Ghidra – NSA's Open-Source Software Reverse Engineering Framework | AbdHicham | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-03-27 | NSA Ghidra software reverse engineering frameworkFirst breakout | thund | 214 | 103 |
| 2026-02-14 | Ghidra by NSAHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | handfuloflight | 433 | 220 |