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		Ask HN: Reading Recommendation for Hackers?
		1 point by z3phyr on Aug 17, 2019 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment
		I am looking for resources which focus on the core idea of hacking: virtual machines / emulators, demoscene, compilers etc. I have read the blue book of smalltalk so far, which describes the smalltalk internals.

koozz on Aug 18, 2019 [–]

Reversing, Secrets of Reverse Engineering - by Eldad Eilam is a nice read. If you know how to reverse engineer something, you can really learn from anything.

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