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Life In Hex
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Life In Hex is a personal blog at lifeinhex.com about security and programming. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for reverse engineering posts: one on Windows system calls (noted as used by VMProtect), another on Frida for Windows RE, and one on C# exception filters with a small keygenme demo.
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.
What Hacker News says?
To add to the mentions of anti-cheat software, there are also multiple binary packers/protectors, such as VMProtect[1], which use system calls directly to protect and/or obfuscate themselves. [1]: https://lifeinhex.com/use-of-syscall-and-sysenter-in-vmprote...
Comment linking /use-of-syscall-and-sysenter-in-vmprotect-3-1/
on “Emulating Windows system calls in Linux”It's only to help new and infrequent users find their way around. Visual Studio is what most Windows developers use, including beginners, and it doesn't need --- or want --- a ribbon. It also doesn't have a full-screen File "menu", which is a repulsive visual assault and one of the other abominations that came from recent versions of Office. The UI isn't even the worse of it. Old WinDbg was a pretty portable thing t…
Comment linking /running-windbgx-on-windows-7/
on “Using Frida for Windows Reverse Engineering”Here's another article on C# exception filters along with a small keygenme demonstrating it's use: http://lifeinhex.com/catch-me-when-you-can/
Comment linking /catch-me-when-you-can/
on “C# 6 exception filters and how they are much more than syntactic sugar”