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mforney.org is a personal blog at mforney.org about systems, security and hardware. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Patching my guitar amp's firmware”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment, which links the post on patching guitar amps (2026-05-28) alongside related work on patching Ableton Move firmware. HN readers link it as an example of LLM-assisted firmware patching on older hardware.
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Most-linked posts?
- Patching my guitar amp's firmware2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-31
What Hacker News says?
I followed the code path when you change the cabinet type, and saw it write some values to the DSP based on a 2D array of doubles, one for each cabinet, each with 41 values, and it was processing them 5 at a time. Looking at the values, they were all in the range -2 to 2, and were very reminiscent of biquad filters I had learned about in another project ( https://mforney.org/blog/2025-06-06-babyface-midi-protocol.h.…
Comment linking /blog/2025-06-06-babyface-midi-protocol.html
on “Patching my guitar amp's firmware”Submitted Patching my guitar amp's firmware as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI would be interested to learn a bit more on the how after reading also [0] and the worlk done on patching the Ableton Move firmware with the Schwung [1]. Slightly different but there is an increasing amount of work done on either old hardware and new one exploring patching, swapping or developing new firmware from scratch thanks to LLM/GenAI currently. [0] https://mforney.org/blog/2026-05-28-patching-my-guitar-amps…
Comment linking /blog/2026-05-28-patching-my-guitar-amps-firmware.html
on “What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI?”Submitted Securing your zone with DNSSEC and DANE as a story · 1 points
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