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Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework

82 mentions on Hacker News by 76 people: 21 stories, 61 comments · first 2019-03-05 · latest 2026-06-24

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  1. https://github.com/nationalsecurityagency/ghidra
    comment by TiredOfLife · 2026-06-24 · in NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute
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    Ghidra by NSA
    story by handfuloflight · 2026-02-14 · 220 comments
  3. …programming but found myself down a small rabbit hole of learning about reverse engineering tools. https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra is an open source one. It will show you the assembly code, does its best at giving you a C…
    comment by nickjj · 2026-01-15 · in Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
  4. …[2] https://github.com/google/bloaty [3] https://github.com/lechium/classdumpios [4] https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
    comment by thefilmore · 2026-01-06 · in Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
  5. …created a processor spec for the μCOM-87 architecture, which I've continued working on in this PR: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/pull/7930
    comment by ajxs · 2025-10-20 · in Introduction to reverse-engineering vintage synth firmware
  6. I found this: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/pull/6314
    comment by Squonk42 · 2025-10-20 · in Introduction to reverse-engineering vintage synth firmware
  7. https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/Ghidra... (Apache 2)
    comment by mdaniel · 2025-06-04 · in Show HN: I wrote a Java decompiler in pure C language
  8. Ghidra also has a debugger, see https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/master...
    comment by Tepix · 2025-05-09 · in AI Meets WinDBG
  9. …mode isn't great, with some bugs requiring significant investment to fix. For example, this issue: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/981 . I guess no one is willing to invest in that because there is no market. - IDA…
    comment by kevin286 · 2025-02-22 · in Spice86 – A PC emulator for real mode reverse engineering
  10. ▲ 3
    Ghidra 11.3 has been released
    story by voxadam · 2025-02-06 · 0 comments
  11. …is that it can't understand the lifetimes of multiple variables with overlapping stack addresses: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/975 Ghidra does have an extensive scripting API, and I've used LLMs to help me write…
    comment by rgovostes · 2025-01-31 · in Decompiling 2024: A Year of Resurgance in Decompilation Research
  12. What EULA? It looks like https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra says it's Apache 2.0
    comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2024-11-07 · in Using Ghidra and Python to reverse engineer Ecco the Dolphin
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    Ghidra 11.2.1 Released
    story by voxadam · 2024-11-06 · 0 comments
  14. …Google/rekall -> yara, winpmem, Microsoft/linpmem, AVML, rr, Ghidra Trace Format: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/discussions... https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/discussions... : appliepie, orange_slice, can
    comment by westurner · 2024-10-25 · in LibLISA – Instruction Discovery and Analysis on x86-64
  15. Just kernel drivers. To know what is inside, you can disassemble them with https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
    comment by novaRom · 2024-07-19 · in Ask HN: What is in C-00000291*.sys?
  16. > That seems to be tied to a certain era, though; https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra I'm talking about modern software, Ghidra. > What do you disagree with, in all that? It seems like a balance has been achieved somewhere in…
    comment by dragontamer · 2024-07-13 · in Discord vs. IRC Rough Notes
  17. …not a database schema, but fundamentally it's the same idea. Here's their definition of the 6502: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/cae919...
    comment by Retr0id · 2024-04-09 · in The 6502 instruction set as a database
  18. ▲ 2
    What's New in Ghidra 11.0
    story by JoachimS · 2024-02-05 · 0 comments
  19. Define war machinery. Contributing to Ghidra would fall under the Pentagon. https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
    comment by 2OEH8eoCRo0 · 2024-01-17 · in OpenAI is working with the US military now
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    Ghidra 11.0 Released
    story by voxadam · 2023-12-23 · 11 comments
  21. …improve the other tools performance we'd be happy to accept it. We reached out to the Ghidra devs: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/5228 but they didn't have any silver bullets for us either.
    comment by psifertex · 2023-12-05 · in Dogbolt Decompiler Explorer
  22. …there's no equivalent to MemoryAccessFilter. But it might not be that complicated to add... [1]: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/4561e8... [2]: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/4561e8...
    comment by 0d0a · 2023-09-16 · in Show HN: Ghidra Plays Mario
  23. …fixing bugs in Ghidra's processor model, here is the author's PR submitting those fixes upstream: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/pull/5740
    comment by wgjordan · 2023-09-11 · in Show HN: Ghidra Plays Mario
  24. ▲ 3
    NSA releases Ghidra version 10.3.3
    story by bunglepop · 2023-08-30 · 0 comments
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    Debugger Ghidra Class
    story by simonpure · 2023-06-19 · 27 comments
  26. Ghidra: https://ghidra-sre.org/ , https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
    comment by armchairhacker · 2023-05-20 · in Ask HN: What's the best open source alternative to IDA Pro?
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    Ghidra 10.3 has been released
    story by crecker · 2023-05-11 · 6 comments
  28. …all on my own and I'm kinda out of the loop from the rest of the reverse-engineering community. [1] https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/pull/5010#i... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35739949
    comment by boricj · 2023-04-28 · in Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
  29. …little warnings and defects in the code that nobody is ever going to check or fix, see this audit: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/382 3. Airgaps may be broken by ultrasound side channels; communication to…
    comment by Grothendank · 2023-04-04 · in NSA Ghidra software reverse engineering framework
  30. Yes https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
    comment by lionkor · 2023-03-29 · in NSA Ghidra software reverse engineering framework
  31. …Would be easy(ish) to tell if the code in the binary was different from the source, probably. [1]: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
    comment by lionkor · 2023-03-29 · in NSA Ghidra software reverse engineering framework
  32. …to rebuild vtable's, testing on a project it does indeed resolve further. https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/516
    comment by amrb · 2023-03-29 · in NSA Ghidra software reverse engineering framework
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    NSA Ghidra software reverse engineering framework
    story by thund · 2023-03-27 · 103 comments
  34. …require a more advanced capability. It'll feel a bit more like breaking out Ghidra & wandering in ( https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra ), than DevTools, even with the most minified websites we have today. But there are also…
    comment by rektide · 2023-02-14 · in The potential of Kotlin/WASM
  35. …It's nice to see this shift in culture, especially from a black box agency like the NSA. https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/
    comment by knaik94 · 2022-11-17 · in NSA opens up to outsiders in fight for cybersecurity
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    Ghidra 10.2 Released
    story by louislang · 2022-11-07 · 0 comments
  37. the what's new did not work for me, but you can just read the source code: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/Ghidra...
    comment by asddubs · 2022-11-03 · in Ghidra 10.2
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    Ghidra 10.2
    story by develatio · 2022-11-03 · 1 comment
  39. …with Ghidra's that I keep hitting is its poor support for amd64 SIMD. There's a good example at < https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/249 >: 0000000000000000 <intrinsics>: 0: f3 0f 1e fa endbr64 4: 0f c6 ca 1b shufps…
    comment by jmillikin · 2022-10-19 · in IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired
  40. …like this doesn't work for stack reuse yet (just registers, or more generally, simple varnodes). https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/2573
    comment by q3k · 2022-10-19 · in IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired
  41. You may be interested in the discussion at < https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/4534 >, especially the linked PR < https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/pull/4546 >.
    comment by jmillikin · 2022-08-23 · in Debugging Win32 Binaries in Ghidra via Wine
  42. …out a valid disassembly, but I am pretty new to Ghidra so it could just be my own ignorance. [1]: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/236 [2]: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/3553
    comment by hoosieree · 2022-07-13 · in Decompiler Explorer
  43. Ghidra is able to: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/master...
    comment by enragedcacti · 2022-07-13 · in Decompiler Explorer
  44. …p-code that represent that instruction. This makes the decompiler architecture agnostic. Example: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/master...
    comment by pd0wm · 2022-01-03 · in Hacking a VW Golf Power Steering ECU
  45. …to attempt this myself I think, but it looks like it is already on the radar of the Ghidra folks: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/2477 Sounds like try-catch handling is not implemented in general yet, but is on the…
    comment by RunasSudo · 2021-08-30 · in Reverse engineering software licensing from early-2000s abandonware
  46. Few days ago it flagged a test binary from Ghidra: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/3160
    comment by biryani_chicken · 2021-07-27 · in Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent
  47. Even better, the NSA provides the sources which you can compile yourself: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/releases
    comment by NotSwift · 2021-07-14 · in Ghidra: A software reverse engineering suite of tools developed by the NSA
  48. Probably because a new version was just released. Details here* but big news is debugger support. Looking forward to taking it for a spin. https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/NationalSe...
    comment by beefcafe · 2021-07-13 · in Ghidra: A software reverse engineering suite of tools developed by the NSA
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    Ghidra 10.0
    story by conductor · 2021-06-24 · 0 comments
  50. ▲ 4
    Ghidra v10.0 Released
    story by Seich · 2021-06-24 · 0 comments