#reverse-engineering
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Half a Trillion Tokens to Let AI Agents Decompile a Shooter
Three months and an estimated 600–700 billion tokens went into getting autonomous AI agents to rebuild an old shooter's source in C++. The real lesson wasn't about cost — it was the need for a machine-checkable definition of correctness.
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Cracking the Eufy Doorbell — From the Front Door to the Home Network
A biologist-turned-hacker from the Adepts of 0xCC collective spent his spare time taking apart the Eufy smart doorbell: jamming its link, reverse-engineering its sound-based pairing protocol, and pulling the hidden network's password straight out of a memory dump.
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Bringing the iPod Classic's earbud buttons back to life: reverse-engineering the Mikey chip
A tinkerer decoded the iPod Classic's undocumented headphone controller and wrote a Rockbox driver — all three inline remote buttons on Apple's wired earbuds finally work.
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Reconstructed Stuxnet source code posted on GitHub
A user going by the handle Sadpainy has published a repository containing the recovered source code of the legendary Stuxnet worm, framing it as educational material for malware analysis.