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.
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HN comment orderThis is INSANELY COOL. If it's smart enough to learn how to build a JPEG in a day, use it with netcat and it could probably send quite a lot of things down in flames. Who needs static analysis :) ?
A couple of years ago a colleague built this for H264/5: http://www.argondesign.com/products/argon-streams-hevc/ It's not just a fuzzer, it guarantees to hit every part of the spec (subject to what "profile" you're implementing). It's not free, it's a product for sale to implementers of HEVC for verification purposes.
Really cool! I recently happened to have a similar idea when I came across the rust-fuzz crate, which abstracts over afl, honggfuzz etc. If you're interested, my notes are here: https://github.com/lachenmayer/insta-fuzz I ended up "cheating" a little bit by providing a valid JPEG header - I found that rust-fuzz seemed to take far too long to generate any valid JPEG at all by starting from eg. an empty file. But maybe I just wasn't patient enough, after all I was…
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
- 3
- Total points
- 1012
- Total comments
- 137
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-11-07 | Pulling JPEGs out of thin airFirst breakout · Best thread | atulagarwal | 444 | 83 |
| 2017-04-24 | Pulling JPEGs Out of Thin Air | hyperpape | 3 | 0 |
| 2017-05-11 | Pulling JPEGs out of thin air (2014) | shubhamjain | 384 | 40 |
| 2019-03-23 | Pulling JPEGs out of thin air (2014)Latest 20+ point return | rayraegah | 177 | 14 |
| 2022-01-28 | Pulling JPEGs out of thin air (2014)Hall induction | bruce343434 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-02-22 | Pulling JPEGs out of thin air (2014) | Tomte | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-06-18 | Pulling JPEGs out of thin air with afl fuzzer (2014) | aragonite | 1 | 0 |