hw-harness
Small set of tools for helping with reverse engineering Linux drivers
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GITHUB · launched Oct 14, 2026 · 156 upvotes (top 8%)
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Partial The helper tooling (capture parsers, register dumpers, UI) is vibe-codeable, but useful driver reverse engineering depends on hardware access, kernel knowledge, and protocol expertise that AI assistance does not supply.
What it would actually take: A real version needs a hardware capture stack (USB/PCI sniffers, logic analyzers, MMIO/DMA tracing), kernel module and driver-model knowledge, and experience with Linux driver subsystems. The software layer (log analysis, decoding helpers, a harness for replaying register accesses) is the easy part. The hard part is domain expertise and access to the physical devices.
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Attention rank: #190 of 2165 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 348 days after the earliest competitor.
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- External ID
- 1419705266
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- Product
- hw-harness
- Website domain
- github.com
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- Upvotes percentile
- 0.92
- All tags
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- AI summary
- reverse engineering tools for linux drivers
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