Reverse Engineering for Beginners
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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 orderIf you prefer video tutorials to a book, be sure to check out the Lena151 tutorials: https://tuts4you.com/download.php?list.17 If you want to practice your reverse engineering skills in a legal manner, check out crackmes.de: http://crackmes.de/ tuts4you also has a nice crackme/unpackme section.
For understanding the stack frame layout on x86-64, I found this post to be quite useful: http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/09/06/stack-frame-layout-o...
Prior comments may be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=beginners.re
If you find binary reverse engineering fascinating and want to go deeper into the formal aspects checkout http://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/comments/smf4u/re... and https://github.com/turnersr/turnersr.github.io/blob/master/t... .
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
- 1253
- Total comments
- 122
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-03-19 | Reverse Engineering for Beginners | matthewbadeau | 2 | 0 |
| 2014-05-10 | Reverse Engineering for BeginnersFirst breakout | X4 | 229 | 26 |
| 2014-08-11 | Reverse Engineering for Beginners: Free book | galapago | 276 | 28 |
| 2015-12-30 | Reverse Engineering for BeginnersBest thread | ingve | 340 | 34 |
| 2016-05-28 | “Reverse Engineering for Beginners” free book | 0xmohit | 155 | 6 |
| 2016-07-29 | Reverse Engineering for BeginnersLatest 20+ point return | iuguy | 235 | 23 |
| 2017-08-14 | Reverse Eng. Book | ntrischi | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-11-20 | Reverse Engineering for Beginners | dennis714 | 3 | 0 |
| 2020-09-01 | Reverse Engineering for Beginners | dgellow | 2 | 1 |
| 2021-09-17 | Reverse Engineering for Beginners (Understanding Assembly Language) | hyproxia | 2 | 1 |
| 2022-04-06 | “Reverse Engineering for Beginners” free book | walterbell | 2 | 3 |
| 2024-07-25 | Reverse Engineering for Beginners | ibobev | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-07-29 | "Reverse Engineering for Beginners" Book | ibobev | 2 | 0 |