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Re:Ask HN: What's the best resource for learning modern x64 ... by indigochill on Sunday February 09, 2020 @02:46AM (#22280937)
>Learn whatever assembly language first

On this front, I can highly recommend these two resources, preferably in this order for someone totally new to assembly:

NAND to Tetris, a course that will have you build an emulated general-purpose CPU from first principles even with no prior knowledge. You'll learn exactly about registers and memory by making them. I even recommend this to non-hardware people because the way they divide each layer of complexity is great practice even in software. https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer

Microcorruption, a series of incrementally difficult MSP430 (an easy-to-understand 16-bit instruction set) exploitation exercises in the browser: https://microcorruption.com

These are both geared towards being a gentle introduction to assembly and CPU architecture principles. They don't touch certain facts of X86/64 processors like pipelining or variable-length instructions, but IMO those are best left until you're comfortable with the basics.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best resource for learning modern x64 ... by retsibsi on Sunday February 09, 2020 @03:42AM (#22281088)
> NAND to Tetris

The book version is also great, and suitable for self-study if you prefer to learn that way: https://www.nand2tetris.org/book

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best resource for learning modern x64 ... by boneitis on Sunday February 09, 2020 @04:38AM (#22281263)
Little warning, Microcorruption may be no longer monitored at this time. Account registration is not automated.

A hacker I closely follow tried to play Microcorruption during a Twitch broadcast, and, to my great disappointment, he was unable to due to lack of response.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best resource for learning modern x64 ... by vervus on Sunday February 09, 2020 @02:01PM (#22283682)
Luckily their "Hall of Fame" is open for anyone to see. And some of the accounts in there are pretty obvious junk accounts with the usual junk passwords. Would probably take like 5 tries to "brute force" your way in, which given the context of the site would even seem fair game.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best resource for learning modern x64 ... by boneitis on Sunday February 09, 2020 @04:11PM (#22284336)
I agree that just about nobody would care in spirit.

It should probably at least be explicitly noted by anyone considering doing so: I'm sure that's still super illegal.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best resource for learning modern x64 ... by tripzilch on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @05:00AM (#22297316)
.. in the United States
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best resource for learning modern x64 ... by boneitis on Thursday February 13, 2020 @03:31AM (#22316209)
That's fair.

In any case, I should probably write here that I have since tested account creation with another email and received the activation link right away.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best resource for learning modern x64 ... by barbecue_sauce on Sunday February 09, 2020 @08:34AM (#22282015)
I also recommend Xeno Kovah's OpenSecurityTraining courses on YouTube, some of which are specifically dedicated to assembly. The audio quality can sometimes be pretty bad, but the information is good. Though they try to obfuscate things a little bit, these are clearly workshops given to researchers at Mitre, the CVE project maintainer.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best resource for learning modern x64 ... by vips7L on Sunday February 09, 2020 @09:19AM (#22282208)
http://opensecuritytraining.info/

For those interested.

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