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Rolf Rolles

Personal blog · msreverseengineering.com/blogsecurityprogramming

Rolf Rolles writes Möbius Strip Reverse Engineering, a personal blog at msreverseengineering.com about security and programming. Since 2015, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Concrete and Abstract Interpretation, Explained Through Chess”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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11mentions?
11HN people?
2015–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2018

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for reverse engineering writing, including a post on concrete versus abstract interpretation of chess, which one commenter connected to the 2048 Markov decision process article.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Concrete and Abstract Interpretation, Explained Through Chess
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-02-27
  2. Trivia Questions for X86 Nerds
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-15
  3. C++ Unwind Exception Metadata: A Hidden Reverse Engineering Bonanza
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. indigochill · 2018-04-10
    What a coincidence. I was just reading a blog about concrete vs abstract interpretations of chess (and how to deal with its massive state space through abstract representation) this morning: http://www.msreverseengineering.com/blog/2018/2/26/concrete-...

    Comment linking /blog/2018/2/26/concrete-and-abstract-interpretation-explained-through-chess

    on “The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes”
  2. nill0 · 2025-02-27

    Submitted Program-Analysis-Reading-List as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. v8dev123 · 2021-04-21
    Compiler identification is not fairly straightforward when you remove all metadata that gives you hints. It gets worse when you fake the metadata. My opinion echoed by many top people in reverse engineering industry. Modern C++ is obfuscated by default due to templates, inlined functions and of course OOP. For example, Marcus Hutchins famously echoed Boost is a cluster fuck of sadness. My point is not about obfuscat…

    Comment linking /

    on “First steps with Rust”
  4. msz-g-w · 2024-08-23

    Submitted C++ Unwind Exception Metadata: A Hidden Reverse Engineering Bonanza as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. sankha93 · 2018-02-27

    Submitted Concrete and Abstract Interpretation, Explained Through Chess as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. server_bot · 2017-10-12

    Submitted Program Analysis Reading List (by Category: CS, Math, PL) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. setra · 2018-02-28

    Submitted Concrete and Abstract Interpretation, Explained Through Chess as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. ingve · 2015-08-04

    Submitted Trivia Questions for X86 Nerds as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. aw1621107 · 2024-08-24

    Submitted C++ Unwind Exception Metadata: A Hidden Reverse Engineering Bonanza as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. 68c12c16 · 2018-01-23

    Submitted A Tutorial on Statically Unpacking the FinSpy VM (by Rolf Rolles) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. mirceasoaica · 2015-06-15

    Submitted TRIVIA QUESTIONS FOR X86 NERDS as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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