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Atredis Partners
Company blog · atredis.com/blogsecurity
Atredis Partners is the company blog at atredis.com, writing about security. Since 2018, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Drawbot: Let's hack something cute (2025)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Atredis Partners posts on creating datasets and fine-tuning large language models, and on reverse engineering consumer devices such as the Timex M851 and Garmin watches.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Atredis Partners — A different kind of information security company. Worker-owned, research-driven.
Most-linked posts?
- Drawbot: Let's hack something cute (2025)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-11-13
- How to Train Your Large Language Model2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-07
- Reverse Engineering the Garmin ConnectIQ Virtual Machine2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-17
- Remote Code Execution in Command&Conquer: Generals2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-27
What Hacker News says?
great series of posts, i went down a similar path recently for a slightly different use case - i did not use axolotl though, i was worried about missing out on understanding some details due to potential abstractions. it's great to see documentation on how others tackle similar problems, i documented the process i went through here - https://atredis.com/blog/2024/6/3/how-to-train-your-large-la...
Comment linking /blog/2024/6/3/how-to-train-your-large-language-model
on “How to think about creating a dataset for LLM fine-tuning evaluation”Submitted NANDcromancy: Live Swapping NAND Flash as a story · 92 points
HN discussionHi! I think this is a pretty good example: https://www.atredis.com/blog/2024/6/3/how-to-train-your-larg...
Comment linking /blog/2024/6/3/how-to-train-your-large-language-model
on “Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide – Unsloth Documentation”Submitted Designing a Passive Lidar Detector Device as a story · 81 points
HN discussionGarmin watches have an SDK with their own entire goofy "Monkey C" language and an entire bytecode VM to run it. It's not "hidden" I guess (there's an app store), but neither was this Timex one. https://www.atredis.com/blog/2020/11/4/garmin-forerunner-235...
Comment linking /blog/2020/11/4/garmin-forerunner-235-dion-blazakis
on “Hacking the Timex M851”Submitted Drawbot: Let's hack something cute (2025) as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Drawbot – let's hack something cute as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Escalating Privileges with CylancePROTECT as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where is the fun in modern security research? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Drawbot: Let's Hack Something Cute as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bad News for the Average Pentester as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remote Code Execution in Command&Conquer: Generals as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted General Graboids: Worms and Remote Code Execution in Command and Conquer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Symbolic Triage: Making the Best of a Good Situation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reverse Engineering the Garmin ConnectIQ Virtual Machine as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CVE-2019-4061: Harvesting Data from BigFix Relay Servers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Train Your Large Language Model as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flamingo Captures Credentials as a story · 1 points
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