Security research, reverse engineering & low-level systems.

Can Bölük — 14 articles — 2017–2026
The work
14The Minutiae of Tool-calling 13Snapcompact: SoTA Compaction — Instant, Local, Free. Pick 3 12I Improved 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed. 11Optimizing Bracha's Reliable Broadcast: Shaving Rounds off a 37-Year-Old Algorithm 10Reverse Engineering Hyperliquid ft. SetYesterdayUserVlm 09PgC: Garbage collecting Patchguard away 08Speculating the entire x86-64 Instruction Set In Seconds with This One Weird Trick 07Writing an optimizing IL compiler, for dummies, by a dummy: 0x1 Symbolic Expressions 06ByePg: Defeating Patchguard using Exception-hooking 05Arbitrary Code Execution at Ring 0 using CVE-2018-8897 04Making the Perfect Injector: Abusing Windows Address Sanitization and CoW 03Escaping SMEP Hell: Exploiting Capcom Driver In a Safe Manner 02Splitting Data from Code, Forgotten x86 Feature: Segmentation 01Faster Results with Deep Neural Networks via Gradient Equalization
14 Machine learning 10 min

The Minutiae of Tool-calling

13 Machine learning 10 min

Snapcompact: SoTA Compaction — Instant, Local, Free. Pick 3

12 Machine learning 8 min

I Improved 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed.

11 Distributed systems 38 min

Optimizing Bracha's Reliable Broadcast: Shaving Rounds off a 37-Year-Old Algorithm

10 Web3 35 min

Reverse Engineering Hyperliquid ft. SetYesterdayUserVlm

09 Windows internals 13 min

PgC: Garbage collecting Patchguard away

08 X86 19 min

Speculating the entire x86-64 Instruction Set In Seconds with This One Weird Trick

07 Software analysis 19 min

Writing an optimizing IL compiler, for dummies, by a dummy: 0x1 Symbolic Expressions

06 Exploits 14 min

ByePg: Defeating Patchguard using Exception-hooking

05 Exploits 13 min

Arbitrary Code Execution at Ring 0 using CVE-2018-8897

04 Windows internals 9 min

Making the Perfect Injector: Abusing Windows Address Sanitization and CoW

03 Exploits 6 min

Escaping SMEP Hell: Exploiting Capcom Driver In a Safe Manner

02 X86 13 min

Splitting Data from Code, Forgotten x86 Feature: Segmentation

01 Machine learning 19 min

Faster Results with Deep Neural Networks via Gradient Equalization