Breaking the x86 Instruction Set

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as a clever, entertaining and easy-to-follow talk on finding hidden x86 instructions with the Sandsifter tool.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Black Hat

Topic

x86 undocumented instructions

Format

talk

Level

advanced

HN recommenders in dataset

9

HN mentions in dataset

17

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• > I trust its disassembler (especially for mainstream languages) more than almost any other disassembler Might I suggest Christopher Domas' Black Hat talk "Breaking the x86 ISA", along the way of which he demonstrates the limitations of all disassemblers out there, including IDA's :) Talk: …

• One of my favourite talks I watched was "Low Cost Non-Invasive Biomedical Imaging - An Open Electrical Impedance Tomography Project" [LINK] As it presented an interesting technique I'd never heard of before, along with an implementation. Also I thought the 'Breaking the x86 Instruction Set' …

• my favorite were: - How the reputation economy is creating data-driven conformity [LINK] - DEF CON 25 (2017) - Weaponizing Machine Learning [LINK] - BlackHat 2017: Breaking the x86 Instruction Set [VIDEO]