> I suppose it's possible the important bits of a high end cassete player aren't any better. Audiophile equipment is sometimes funny that way.

It's a different problem domain too. A non-linear tape head/amplifier may help with recovering pulses but have unpleasant distortion for audio.

The IRS?

Presumably they had a brain scan machine (scanner?) nearby, ready to go. Everyone likes a joke with a prop.

This seems to the same text as the author's Reverse Engineering for Beginners (https://beginners.re/)

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=beginners.re

Yeah, I'm a little confused about this "build" of the pdf. It clearly states: "The latest version (and Russian edition) of this text is accessible at beginners.re." - which points to: https://github.com/DennisYurichev/RE-for-beginners

But as far as I can tell there's no branch with a different name - maybe this was just a working title for the English version at some point?

Anyway, this new submission with a new title made take a look, so I'm happy :)

Now, I just hope someone takes a crack at forcing an epub build for better reflow/resize on small screens...

There's a (dormant?) issue: https://github.com/DennisYurichev/RE-for-beginners/issues/37...

The title pages are different. The Reverse Engineering book's title text is hex digits, and is dated July 9, 2018. The Assembly Language book's title page is English text, and is dated today, July 17, 2018. And there is no mention of the Assembly Language book on his home page, yurichev.com.

Yes. Explanation: https://yurichev.com/blog/UAL/

Fun fact: both books have precisely 1082 pages.

Fun fact: both books have precisely the same content

Fun fact: both sources have precisely the same favicon as well.

Another old chestnut - learning some assembly allows you to read it, even if you don't ever need to write any. There is real value in understanding which instructions your compiler is emitting.

Beating the compiler is made easier if you can look at the compiler's answers.

Semiconductor manufacturing is very planar - it's made up of many layers on top of each other, with some interconnecting features or vias between layers. It's a best-case scenario for reverse engineering with photography.

The very popular 858D temperature controlled hot air stations only run about 50usd. Performance is much better than a hardware store heat gun.

> a 200-pound gorrilla mucking around

There's the AvE influence.

That man is honestly the most entertaining and informative tv-show I've ever watched.

Not sure about you but I keep breathing 24 hours a day.

you're clearly not trying hard enough.

Personally, I would be surprised to read about well-documented theft committed by ancient Pharaohs in tomorrow's newspapers.

I'm reminded of the 3750 year old customer complaint letter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir

That's so good. That offers such an insight into lives from long ago. It's weird how I suddenly felt so attached to the business frustrations of the ancient babylonians!

Apologies, I've stolen it myself https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15669759

The sad thing is none of the customer complaints of today will ever last as long as that did due to the lack of long term storage devices.

We really need a long term storage solution for our data as a society or risk having another period of dark ages in the future.

Thanks for that interesting bit. Any links about what happened after? I guess it's lost in the history now, sadly.

Everyone died

I'd like to!