{"slug": "ida-pro", "name": "IDA Pro", "category": "other", "category_name": "Other software", "description": "", "recommenders": 8, "commenters": 21, "warners": 2, "score": 8.141, "rising": -1.29, "first": "2026-01-09", "latest": "2026-10-11", "why": "They are as good as it gets when it comes to not choking on unusual binaries", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 8, "neutral": 9, "compare": 3, "warn": 2}, "spark": [0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 1, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "They are as good as it gets when it comes to not choking on unusual binaries", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": "github.com/hexrayssa/ida-nexus", "official_url": "https://hex-rays.com/ida-pro", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["IDA Pro", "IDA"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 791081104, "item_id": 49442569, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442569", "by": "not_a9", "date": "2026-08-26", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "https://github.com/HexRaysSA/ida-nexus", "excerpt": "I guess Hex-Rays and Vector35 must be hallucinating their effects for, say, reverse engineering. OFC rev isn't be all and end all of computing but the effect LLMs had on security research and adjacent spaces (say, CTF) is interesting https://github.com/HexRaysSA/ida-nexus https://sidekick.binary.ninja/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "How much of HN is AI?"}, {"id": 785836928, "item_id": 49114808, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49114808", "by": "mahaloz", "date": "2026-07-30", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "A lot of data shows IDA Pro is significantly better than Ghidra", "excerpt": "Interesting. A lot of data shows IDA Pro is significantly better than Ghidra: https://decbench.com/ Based on today's results, IDA Pro is ahead by 15 percentage points, which would mean, statistically, IDA Pro will recover perfect source code for 15% more functions than Ghidra on average.", "context": "", "use_case": "Decompiling binaries", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kuna: Decompiler Development in the Age of Coding Agents"}, {"id": 781552290, "item_id": 48847018, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847018", "by": "mirmor23", "date": "2026-07-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "even IDApro has perpetual license.", "excerpt": "Just ask for one-time payment also. IMO, this whole 'article' has such a corporate bootlicky flavor to it. I pay for subscription (claude, gpt, netflix etc) since there are no real (pragmatic, convenience and financial) alternatives and it's not easy to rig a solution. otherwise the very fact that the only option is app subscription, i stay out of it on principle. even IDApro has perpetual license.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Just Pay the Subscription"}, {"id": 770377698, "item_id": 48148606, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148606", "by": "mtlynch", "date": "2026-05-15", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "non-AI tooling (IDA Pro, Ghidra) that's good at binary reverse engineering", "excerpt": "> Most are not serious, and we\u2019ve quietly fixed them, thanked the researcher, and went our merry way... These come from a wide variety of locations and people, and sometimes, but not always, are looking for bug bounties. I take it that Metabase is both not paying bug bounties and not using these tools internally? If that's the case, Metabase is not going to get meaningful investment from researchers who want to fix i", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Welcome to the Strip Mining Era of OSS Security"}, {"id": 752997136, "item_id": 47062321, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062321", "by": "LowLevelMahn", "date": "2026-02-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "IDA Pro 5 (Freeware) is the last Freeware version able to handle DOS executeables", "excerpt": "Tools: IDA Pro 5 (Freeware) is the last Freeware version able to handle DOS executeables (official available by the ScummVM devs https://www.scummvm.org/news/20180331/) - IDA Pro still supports DOS-stuff with latest release - but not the freeware or Ghidra - but the DOS/16bit support is sometimes lacky - but the decompiler is builtin here is a list of articles to read: https://forum.stunts.hu/index.php?topic=4287.0", "context": "", "use_case": "Reverse engineering DOS binaries", "switched_from": "", "story": "Reverse Engineering Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon for DOS from 1990"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 780669632, "item_id": 48791852, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791852", "by": "Tiberium", "date": "2026-07-04", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "IDA's C++ API is really easy to misuse and corrupt a DB", "excerpt": "Not yet, unfortunately, but I might in the future. To be honest, it's nothing unique. I got inspired by https://github.com/allthingsida/idasql which I initially used, but it had a lot of bugs, a big codebase size, and IDA's C++ API is really easy to misuse and corrupt a DB, so I had GPT 5.4/5.5 make a new one for itself based on IDA's Python SDK, which is official and doesn't need weird SQL hacks. Then recently I fou", "context": "", "use_case": "reverse engineering", "switched_from": "", "story": "Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable"}, {"id": 752731441, "item_id": 47045715, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045715", "by": "EE84M3i", "date": "2026-02-17", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "IDA, had UXes that were very difficult for new users to pick up", "excerpt": "Last time I used them - Ghidra, and to some extent IDA, had UXes that were very difficult for new users to pick up and frequently deviate from standard expectations for modern desktop apps because they have two decades of baggage. In contrast binary ninja is very easy to explore and has many fewer surprises.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ghidra by NSA"}, {"id": 752577425, "item_id": 47036089, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036089", "by": "q3k", "date": "2026-02-16", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "It's not worth the price for hobbyists.", "excerpt": "IDA is the better tool if you're being paid to work with architectures that IDA supports well (ARM(64), x86(_64), etc). This usually means 'mainstream' security/malware research. It's not worth the price for hobbyists. Before Hex-Rays was sold to private equity, it could make sense for rich hobbyists to pay for a private license once and use it for a few years without software updates, with the cloud offering now it ", "context": "", "use_case": "Reverse engineering", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ghidra by NSA"}]}], "who": [{"by": "stevefan1999", "context": "played CTFs", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042973", "date": "2026-10-11"}, {"by": "s-macke", "context": "reverse engineering old games", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49564927", "date": "2026-09-04"}, {"by": "billypilgrim", "context": "reverse engineer", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112569", "date": "2026-07-30"}, {"by": "serious_angel", "context": "Security software engineer, 19+ years", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46554712", "date": "2026-01-09"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["reverse engineering", "disassembly", "static analysis, reverse engineering", "decompilation database", "decompiling binaries", "reverse engineering dos binaries"], "compared": [{"slug": "ghidra", "name": "Ghidra", "co": 14, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "binary-ninja", "name": "Binary Ninja", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "claude-code", "name": "Claude Code", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "gpt-5", "name": "GPT-5", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "chatgpt", "name": "ChatGPT", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "claude", "name": "Claude", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011548", "title": "Ghidra by NSA", "mentions": 5}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49105563", "title": "Kuna: Decompiler Development in the Age of Coding Agents", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48788283", "title": "Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50039092", "title": "500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550375", "title": "Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49435728", "title": "How much of HN is AI?", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-02": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 1, "warn": 2, "compare": 3}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 2, "recommend": 2}, "2026-08": {"neutral": 3, "recommend": 1}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-10": {"neutral": 1}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 800687568, "item_id": 50042973, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042973", "by": "stevefan1999", "date": "2026-10-11", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "At this point static analysis like IDA and Ghidra stopped working.", "excerpt": "Reverse engineering dynamic dispatches like vtable and fat pointers/slices and traits would be hell. Different padding and compiler settings also contribute a lot. One of the few problem is that the decompiler is not always reliable. That forces you to go read the assembly, and it is not apparent to decipher the right kind of feng shui, not even from human before the LLM era. I used to play CTFs and my conclusion is ", "context": "played CTFs", "use_case": "static analysis, reverse engineering", "switched_from": "", "story": "500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter"}, {"id": 793038832, "item_id": 49564927, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49564927", "by": "s-macke", "date": "2026-09-04", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Use an ancient free IDA-Pro for disassembly", "excerpt": "I use a step-by-step approach: 1. For each topic, write a result Markdown file in `spec/`. 2. Identify the file formats. 3. Reverse Engineer and extract all assets, followed by manual review. This works in 90% of the cases. 4. Determine the compression/packing used for the executable. Most binaries used one of roughly five common executable packers. 5. Unpack the executable manually. 6. Use an ancient free IDA-Pro fo", "context": "reverse engineering old games", "use_case": "disassembly", "switched_from": "", "story": "Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly"}, {"id": 791081104, "item_id": 49442569, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442569", "by": "not_a9", "date": "2026-08-26", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "https://github.com/HexRaysSA/ida-nexus", "excerpt": "I guess Hex-Rays and Vector35 must be hallucinating their effects for, say, reverse engineering. OFC rev isn't be all and end all of computing but the effect LLMs had on security research and adjacent spaces (say, CTF) is interesting https://github.com/HexRaysSA/ida-nexus https://sidekick.binary.ninja/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "How much of HN is AI?"}, {"id": 787268640, "item_id": 49204290, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204290", "by": "rzzzt", "date": "2026-08-06", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Also a few free-but-cut-down versions like 5 (which still recognizes MS-DOS executables). I'm not going to recommend downloading it from any of the locations mentioned here but it's out there: https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/19179/older-versions-of-ida-free", "context": "", "use_case": "reverse engineering", "switched_from": "", "story": "Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?"}, {"id": 786628018, "item_id": 49164251, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164251", "by": "Tiberium", "date": "2026-08-03", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "agent renaming all functions, globals in the IDA DB", "excerpt": "Honestly such decomp projects are the place where LLM agents help the most, I have a similar one for a 1999 game which started from the agent renaming all functions, globals in the IDA DB, adding types and function signatures. After the database was basically 100% annotated, it was exported, made compilable with the same compiler as the original game. Then after some fixes (basically all being IDA decompilation bugs)", "context": "", "use_case": "decompilation database", "switched_from": "", "story": "KisakCOD \u2013 open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer"}, {"id": 786132338, "item_id": 49133271, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133271", "by": "aetherspawn", "date": "2026-08-01", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Hook it up to IDA", "excerpt": "Yeah try Sonnet 5, it has no guardrails and it can run continuously. Hook it up to IDA, or I use Ghidra, with MCP and it can autonomously search for whatever you tell it to using a text prompt. It\u2019s way faster than doing it by hand. Only issue is Sonnet is kind of a silly model and whilst it\u2019s good at searching for stuff, it lacks a little bit of common sense compared to Opus or Fable, so you\u2019ll have to drive it. You", "context": "", "use_case": "reverse engineering", "switched_from": "", "story": "Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights"}, {"id": 785836928, "item_id": 49114808, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49114808", "by": "mahaloz", "date": "2026-07-30", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "A lot of data shows IDA Pro is significantly better than Ghidra", "excerpt": "Interesting. A lot of data shows IDA Pro is significantly better than Ghidra: https://decbench.com/ Based on today's results, IDA Pro is ahead by 15 percentage points, which would mean, statistically, IDA Pro will recover perfect source code for 15% more functions than Ghidra on average.", "context": "", "use_case": "Decompiling binaries", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kuna: Decompiler Development in the Age of Coding Agents"}, {"id": 785801107, "item_id": 49112569, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112569", "by": "billypilgrim", "date": "2026-07-30", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "copying disassembly from the current function and all nested called functions from IDA", "excerpt": "idalib with Claude Code already works really well. But honestly, despite what people have been saying, LLMs have been very good at decompiling for at least two years now, I have been using it for that purpose regularly. Even just copying disassembly from the current function and all nested called functions from IDA into ChatGPT is already unexpectedly good.", "context": "reverse engineer", "use_case": "disassembly", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kuna: Decompiler Development in the Age of Coding Agents"}, {"id": 781552290, "item_id": 48847018, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847018", "by": "mirmor23", "date": "2026-07-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "even IDApro has perpetual license.", "excerpt": "Just ask for one-time payment also. IMO, this whole 'article' has such a corporate bootlicky flavor to it. I pay for subscription (claude, gpt, netflix etc) since there are no real (pragmatic, convenience and financial) alternatives and it's not easy to rig a solution. otherwise the very fact that the only option is app subscription, i stay out of it on principle. even IDApro has perpetual license.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Just Pay the Subscription"}, {"id": 780669632, "item_id": 48791852, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791852", "by": "Tiberium", "date": "2026-07-04", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "IDA's C++ API is really easy to misuse and corrupt a DB", "excerpt": "Not yet, unfortunately, but I might in the future. To be honest, it's nothing unique. I got inspired by https://github.com/allthingsida/idasql which I initially used, but it had a lot of bugs, a big codebase size, and IDA's C++ API is really easy to misuse and corrupt a DB, so I had GPT 5.4/5.5 make a new one for itself based on IDA's Python SDK, which is official and doesn't need weird SQL hacks. Then recently I fou", "context": "", "use_case": "reverse engineering", "switched_from": "", "story": "Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable"}, {"id": 780669074, "item_id": 48791817, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791817", "by": "Tiberium", "date": "2026-07-04", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I have a custom IDA Python-based CLI", "excerpt": "You can do this yourself with LLMs, but I admit that it's still not a trivial process. For the actual best results and the highest chance of progressing quickly, you really need a $200 OpenAI/Anthropic sub and a lot of free time. I seriously recommend OpenAI over Anthropic for this, as in my experience GPT 5.5 is far more thorough in reverse engineering and makes mistakes less often. Then, you first need some tooling", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable"}, {"id": 775204560, "item_id": 48450285, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450285", "by": "ndiddy", "date": "2026-06-08", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "IDA Pro has this functionality built in, you can export a .idc script file", "excerpt": "Typically the approach taken by people who are concerned about legal issues regarding disassemblies is that they distribute a script file that contains all the code/data annotations, comments, variable names, and labels, and then the user can feed this file and a copy of the original binary into the disassembler to reproduce the disassembly. Here's a random example for a 6502 codebase: https://github.com/TakuikaNinja", "context": "", "use_case": "Disassembly", "switched_from": "", "story": "Full Reverse Engineering of the TI-84 Plus Operating System"}, {"id": 770377698, "item_id": 48148606, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148606", "by": "mtlynch", "date": "2026-05-15", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "non-AI tooling (IDA Pro, Ghidra) that's good at binary reverse engineering", "excerpt": "> Most are not serious, and we\u2019ve quietly fixed them, thanked the researcher, and went our merry way... These come from a wide variety of locations and people, and sometimes, but not always, are looking for bug bounties. I take it that Metabase is both not paying bug bounties and not using these tools internally? If that's the case, Metabase is not going to get meaningful investment from researchers who want to fix i", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Welcome to the Strip Mining Era of OSS Security"}, {"id": 752997136, "item_id": 47062321, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062321", "by": "LowLevelMahn", "date": "2026-02-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "IDA Pro 5 (Freeware) is the last Freeware version able to handle DOS executeables", "excerpt": "Tools: IDA Pro 5 (Freeware) is the last Freeware version able to handle DOS executeables (official available by the ScummVM devs https://www.scummvm.org/news/20180331/) - IDA Pro still supports DOS-stuff with latest release - but not the freeware or Ghidra - but the DOS/16bit support is sometimes lacky - but the decompiler is builtin here is a list of articles to read: https://forum.stunts.hu/index.php?topic=4287.0", "context": "", "use_case": "Reverse engineering DOS binaries", "switched_from": "", "story": "Reverse Engineering Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon for DOS from 1990"}, {"id": 752731441, "item_id": 47045715, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045715", "by": "EE84M3i", "date": "2026-02-17", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "IDA, had UXes that were very difficult for new users to pick up", "excerpt": "Last time I used them - Ghidra, and to some extent IDA, had UXes that were very difficult for new users to pick up and frequently deviate from standard expectations for modern desktop apps because they have two decades of baggage. In contrast binary ninja is very easy to explore and has many fewer surprises.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ghidra by NSA"}, {"id": 752603168, "item_id": 47037698, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037698", "by": "b8", "date": "2026-02-16", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "Yep, it's cheaper than IDA and I like the UI better.", "excerpt": "Yep, it's cheaper than IDA and I like the UI better. Also I love that it's made by game hacking folks (my clique).", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ghidra by NSA"}, {"id": 752593762, "item_id": 47037110, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037110", "by": "ActorNightly", "date": "2026-02-16", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Also this. https://github.com/jart/blink", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ghidra by NSA"}, {"id": 752581569, "item_id": 47036348, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036348", "by": "alexrp", "date": "2026-02-16", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "I've used IDA, Ghidra, and Binary Ninja a lot over the years", "excerpt": "Binary Ninja deserves a mention in these threads: https://binary.ninja I've used IDA, Ghidra, and Binary Ninja a lot over the years. At this point I much prefer Binary Ninja for the task of building up an understanding of large binaries with many thousands of types and functions. It also doesn't hurt that its UI/UX feel like something out of this century, and it's very easy to automate using Python scripts.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ghidra by NSA"}, {"id": 752577425, "item_id": 47036089, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036089", "by": "q3k", "date": "2026-02-16", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "It's not worth the price for hobbyists.", "excerpt": "IDA is the better tool if you're being paid to work with architectures that IDA supports well (ARM(64), x86(_64), etc). This usually means 'mainstream' security/malware research. It's not worth the price for hobbyists. Before Hex-Rays was sold to private equity, it could make sense for rich hobbyists to pay for a private license once and use it for a few years without software updates, with the cloud offering now it ", "context": "", "use_case": "Reverse engineering", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ghidra by NSA"}, {"id": 750099042, "item_id": 46881190, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46881190", "by": "hackit2", "date": "2026-02-03", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "the tools you use IDA, Ghidra that turn the assembly code back into C pseudo code", "excerpt": "It isn't that hard. I'm currently reverse engineering a old flight simulator game called A-10 Cuba. I had to teach myself X86 Assembly, and understand basic calling convention. Then C++ vtables, struct alignment and struct layout. How-ever you do need this basic level understanding of the core fundamental to help you along when the tools you use IDA, Ghidra that turn the assembly code back into C pseudo code. So ther", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Decompiling and rewriting a 2003 game from its binary in two weeks"}, {"id": 749660688, "item_id": 46853793, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46853793", "by": "JasonADrury", "date": "2026-02-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "IDA is heavily scriptable so the LLM usually ends up interacting rather interesting ways", "excerpt": "I've been decompiling and patching a wide range of software using codex with ida-pro-mcp and radare2 for generic targets, various language-specific tools for .net and java for example. IDA is heavily scriptable so the LLM usually ends up interacting rather interesting ways, but generally extremely effectively. I'm not paying for the tokens I use, so I just choose whatever is the most performant model OpenAI offers. I", "context": "", "use_case": "reverse engineering", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 745461824, "item_id": 46591364, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591364", "by": "weinzierl", "date": "2026-01-12", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "They are as good as it gets when it comes to not choking on unusual binaries", "excerpt": "The famous \"A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux\" tutorial has some good answers for you. https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html In short: Compilers don't help l, but with a good macro assembler it is quite convenient. Maybe the author used custom tooling but the assembler route is the easiest if you only need this once or a couple of times. To the second qu", "context": "", "use_case": "Reverse engineering", "switched_from": "", "story": "This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser"}, {"id": 744875393, "item_id": 46554712, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46554712", "by": "serious_angel", "date": "2026-01-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "is absolutely enough for the accountable and fun work in our teams", "excerpt": "Roger that. Thank you! Apparently, while I've being employed in security as software engineer for at least 19 years now, I've never ever considered it all serious, and still do not. Sorry, I have literally no interest in all of it that makes you dependent on it, atrophies mind, degrades research and social skills, and negates self-confidencen with respect to other authors, their work, and attributions. Nor any of my ", "context": "Security software engineer, 19+ years", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Executable Markdown files with Unix pipes"}]}