{"id":39346,"date":"2026-10-14T18:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T18:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=39346"},"modified":"2026-10-14T14:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T18:09:17","slug":"cult-of-cantstopwontstopchiangstop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/cult-of-cantstopwontstopchiangstop\/","title":{"rendered":"Cult of cantStopWontStopChiangStop"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TL;DR of my new article: Reverse Engineer Anything went from 40 to 229k GitHub stars in 12 days. I ran \/last30days 13 times and cut 100+ posts down to the 8 things people actually took apart:<\/div>\n
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🖥️ A bug in hardware you own: a researcher found a hole in their own Dell monitor’s firmware in 15 minutes with a Ghidra MCP.<\/div>\n
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🔍 One feature, with evidence: Obsidian’s quick switcher rebuilt and checked against the real app across 4,915 queries.<\/div>\n
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🔑 What your build leaks: the hidden unlock code in a stripped Mac app, recovered straight from the binary.<\/div>\n
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❄️ The vendor app you hate: the most-liked post in the sweep was @icanberk (22,478 likes) reverse-engineering their AC by having Codex watch an emulator’s network calls.<\/div>\n
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🎮 A whole game: 500 billion tokens, 99% of functions back, 83% byte-exact. The trick: “A simple PASS or FAIL signal would be enough.”<\/div>\n
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🕹️ Games you own: universal-modder from @rehan_shei, and dozens of old games ported to the browser.<\/div>\n
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🛠️ IDA for your agent: Hex-Rays shipped an official IDA MCP server, free and open source.<\/div>\n
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✅ Ground truth: REA’s claims about Red Alert checked against EA’s GPL source. 7 of 8 right.<\/div>\n
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🎨 The Adobe clones: the biggest videos of the week were about Photoshop and Premiere rebuilt in Rust. Everyone credited REA. The repos say clean-room, from public specs.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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https:\/\/x.com\/mvanhorn\/status\/2110369555516407913?s=43<\/a><\/div>\n


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On 09-09-39, “What They Will NEVER Teach You at Stanford Business School” debuts at 300 w 44th St at New York Fashion Week’s front row
http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QXIaNZi3mHQ<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

What A Super Model Can Teach a Harvard MBA About Credit www.slideshare.net\/larrychiang\/what-a-super-model-can-teach-a-harvard-mba-about-credit<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

American Express hosts me mentoring you about FICO scores at New York Fashion Week
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My video boils down 20,000 hours and moves you to the right on the entrepreneur bell curve 
http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE<\/span>
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Steve Jobs Texted me on 650-283-8008 in the same way that Mr Jobs called Bill Hewlett <\/span>https:\/\/x.com\/superSaiyanSkai\/status\/1941392367304761636\/video\/1<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

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Larry Chiang<\/span><\/div>\n
Fund of Founders<\/div>\n
Founding Stanford EIR<\/div>\n
@duck9 alum, Deeply Understood Capital Credit Chinese Knowledge 9<\/div>\n
Solo Founder Uber API<\/div>\n
650-566-9600 Office<\/div>\n
650-566-9696 Direct<\/div>\n
Cell: 415-720-8500 <\/div>\n

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650-283-8008 (cell)<\/span><\/div>\n

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Editor of the widely syndicated “What They Don’t Teach at School”
whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

CNN Video Channel: ireport.cnn.com\/people\/larrychiang<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Read my last 10 X posts at www.X.com\/LarryChiang<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Author of #WTDTYASBS a NY Times Bestseller released 09-09-09 at #NYFW on a runway under the tents
whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/?s=Ny+times+bestseller<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

www.fastcompany.com\/embed\/c0d4562ea2049<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

52 Cards. Two Jokers. What They DO Teach You at Stanford Engineering
http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vDBY0GkI3-g<\/span><\/p>\n

Emergency swings and cutting deals as an 9 year old
http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OFGY7v9C4G0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hunter Pence shared thoughts before winning WORLD SERIES’ Game #7
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