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Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch (2020)
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The Basics of Arm64 Assembly
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From Zero to main(): Bare metal C (2019)
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Supporting four operating systems in a 400 byte ELF executable
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Killbutmakeitlooklikeanaccident.sh
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Blinkenlights: PC Binary Emulating Visualizer
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Adding code to an existing ELF file
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A blog that is a single executable binary
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MiniVM: A zero-dependency cross-language runtime on par with LuaJIT and C
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Tiny ELF Files: Revisited in 2021
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PureBasic switches to a C backend
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Zld: Drop-in, faster version of Apple's linker
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Using QEMU-user emulation to reverse engineer binaries
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Story of a Tshirt with a Shellcode
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64-Bit Linux Return-Oriented Programming
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Actually Portable Executable
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Apple M1 Assembly Language Hello World
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CubicDOOM a ray-casting game that fits in a boot sector (510 bytes)
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The State of Linux Debuggers
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Anatomy of a Binary Executable
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A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (1999)
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Return-oriented programming-based CSGO, BF3, BF4 cheat
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FatELF: Universal Binaries for Linux (2015)
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Linux Reverse Engineering CTFs for Beginners
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Best of Show: PDP-7 and PDP-11/40 emulation
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Show HN: Bo, the Swiss army knife of data examination and manipulation
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A guide to better embedded C++
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Branchless Doom
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Building a Website with C++
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SmallerC – Small, Simple, Self-Compiling, Single Pass C Compiler
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Generating executable files from scratch
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A Magnetized Needle and a Steady Hand
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Taylor – Swift on bare metal
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PINCE – A GDB front-end/reverse engineering tool focused on games
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Size cost of C++ exception handling on embedded platforms
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Writing a dynamic x86_64 assembler in Scala
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Rappel: A REPL for x86, amd64, and armv7
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Intro to Debugging X86-64 Assembly
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New ELF Linker from the LLVM Project
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Linux Assembly How To: “Hello, World”
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64-bit Linux Return-Oriented Programming
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Show HN: A minimal C runtime for Linux i386 and x86_64 in 87 SLOC of C
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Say hello to x64 Assembly, Part 2
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Say hello to x64 Assembly, part 1
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How to write an iOS app purely in C
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Editing binaries: easier than it sounds
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TCP HTTP Server written in Assembly
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Smallest x86 ELF Hello World
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TinyVM 1.0 released; adds 16 lines of code, registers, a VM stack and more
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"Hello, world" in Assembly.
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Return-Oriented Programming without Returns (on the x86)
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Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux
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A C Compiler that fits in the 512 byte boot sector of an x86 machine
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Dogbolt Decompiler Explorer
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Clang now makes binaries an original Pi B+ can't run
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Cramming a tiny program into a tiny ELF file
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Visual Analysis of Binary Files
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