https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2104.02612/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45220384urn:hackerpapers:mention:2104.02612:45220384Fri, 12 Sep 2025 09:33:28 GMT<p>This is a difficult project. The blog post seems to hint at reasonable feasibility, this stuff is hard! We build a less ambitious tool in the university lab: &quot;ASTANA: Practical String Deobfuscation for Android Applications Using Program Slicing&quot; [0]. Would advise to first read the reverse engineering related work. Genetic programming is just a technique best used when everything else has failed :-) [0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.02612</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2104.02612/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CRhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34099421urn:hackerpapers:mention:2104.02612:34099421Thu, 22 Dec 2022 22:02:13 GMT<p>Author here - thanks for the kind words! Both the moments I first saw the Apple logo rendered correctly (rendered by the bootloader) and the first time the Home Screen loaded were epic milestones indeed! I treated this mostly as a side project but reverse engineering has always been a huge passion of me. However, I managed to combine some aspects of reverse engineering into my research work I&#x27;ve done in Delft, most notably by reverse engineering mobile banking APIs (https://devos50.github.io/assets/pdf/iom.pdf) and by deobfuscating strings in obfuscated Android APKs…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2104.02612/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CR