Users are reverse engineering and porting software across platforms with Perplexity Computer. This user's mechanical keyboard app was Windows only, with no Linux support and no documentation. Computer downloaded the binary in its cloud sandbox, decompiled it with headless Ghidra, and ported it to a native Rust app for... Linux. Computer read the decompiled code to learn how the app drives the keyboard, then rebuilt it piece by piece, complete with keyboard lighting that syncs to music over PipeWire, a 3D view, key remapping, macros and profiles.show more

lighting that syncs to music over PipeWire is the feature i'd have cut first. glad someone didn't

bro the background music is insane

No docs. No source code. Windows-only binary. And AI still shipped a native Linux alternative. The software moat is getting very interesting.

Can pro users please get Gemni Argon and Sonnet Haiku

Nice. Please setup in India and IPO here

The background music 🤣

If you could also add the macro editor's visual node logic in as well, it would be absolutely god-tier.

Wow, linux folks will love it. these apps mostly just send usb packets i think

bruh, who needs docs when you got ghidra

the readme has the recovered usb protocol written up and checked on a real f75. that writeup is the reusable part

Keyboard app today. Windows-only printer drivers are the boss fight.

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Decompiling a vendor binary in a cloud sandbox is a great demo right up until legal reads the EULA. The capability problem is solved. The "who approved this" problem is not.

RIP "proprietary software"

Couldn’t codex or claude code do this? Did you use your own models? What’s the announcement here?

Headless Ghidra into a native Rust port with PipeWire light sync 🤯 Did it recover the keyboard protocol purely from decompiled code, or probe the device too?

👌🏼

how much of the rust port passes the original app's tests

With no docs, the original binary is the only spec. I'd want to see the USB traffic from both versions diffed before trusting that the port behaves the same.

documentation is officially legacy code

Can I use Perplexity Computer to reverse engineer Perplexity Computer to a native Rust port?

how long did the whole port take, and how many times did the user have to step in?

reverse engineering closed source hardware apps in real time with PipeWire audio sync? this completely changes the game for Linux hardware drivers

decompiling a windows only binary with headless ghidra just to port it to linux is the demo that actually matters. agents eating the boring reverse engineering grunt work is the real unlock

Aravind, its done bro

decompiling a windows binary to port it, the reverse engineering crowd is gonna have opinions

pulling the binary into a sandbox and running ghidra headless on it is a very clean way to do it. undocumented windows only apps were always the stuck case for linux

This is bloody killer!

Lo mejor de los agentes de IA: rescatar cacharros que el fabricante dejó tirados con un programa solo para Windows. Muchos teclados e impresoras acaban en un cajón por eso. Y en Europa la ley deja destripar un programa si es la única forma de que otro se entienda con él.