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WerWolv
Personal blog · werwolv.net/postssecuritysystemsprogramming
WerWolv is a personal blog at werwolv.net about security, systems and programming. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
WerWolv's blog on reverse engineering, covering the ImHex hex editor, bringing up the Linux kernel on new platforms, and file format reverse engineering. Comments focus on the kernel post and suggest the file format post.
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.
WerWolv's Blog
Most-linked posts?
- Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-08-30
What Hacker News says?
From their "About" section & README: > A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people that value their eye sight when working at 3 AM. Or their announcement page ( https://werwolv.net/projects ): > A Hex editor with data pattern support and many features useful for Reverse Engineers Maybe "ImHex - A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers" would be a better title?
Comment linking /projects
on “ImHex – A Hex Editor”Submitted Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex as a story · 256 points
HN discussionExcellent post. Your file format RE looks like an additional one to add to the reading queue as well: https://werwolv.net/posts/file_format_reverse_engineering/
Comment linking /posts/file_format_reverse_engineering/
on “How to bring up the Linux Kernel on a new platform”Submitted How to bring up the Linux Kernel on a new platform as a story · 103 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware as a story · 100 points
HN discussionSubmitted USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reverse Engineering the Surface Book 2's proprietary IOCTL commands as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linux? In My Web Browser? – How to Bring Up the Linux Kernel as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reverse-enginnering a bluethoot termal printer (2021) as a story · 1 points
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