Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars

Post by colechristensen » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 8:42 PM UTC

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I spent the last week successfully reverse engineering my car / various scan tools to get the right information to diagnose a fuel pump problem (and to do so without the incredible awkwardness of many of the tools) It's pretty amazing what Claude + Ghidra + knowledgable coaching can accomplish. It was basically just setting direction, setting up an incremental workflow with the right kind of documentation, and questi…

I’ve recently built a disassembler and emulator using Claude to help reverse engineer a 90’s ECU based on an Intel embedded cpu. It was quite impressive to watch when Claude started to use the emulator to help understand how bits of the code worked.

Post by colechristensen » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 8:51 PM UTC

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I spent the last week successfully reverse engineering my car / various scan tools to get the right information to diagnose a fuel pump problem (and to do so without the incredible awkwardness of many of the tools) It's pretty amazing what Claude + Ghidra + knowledgable coaching can accomplish. It was basically just setting direction, setting up an incremental workflow with the right kind of documentation, and questi…

+1 on the "plz tell me how" train!

Post by vablings » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 9:10 PM UTC

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There are about 3000 deaths per year in Sweden attributed to position from cars, and 300 physical accidents. So it is a really big issue, but it is almost impossible to make people understand that their car use and modification mains people. Modified cars can release 1000x more polution, on streets with 800 daily cars that will have an affect.

You can ban modifying your car to pollute more (which we do) without banning modifying your car. This isn't complicated FFS. The difficulty against this in the US is the unfortunate reality that the people coming to these shops to enable their stupid trucks to roll coal are the people who should technically be raiding and shutting down these companies. This can be fixed. Physically, you can already modify your car to…

Post by Interesco » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 9:49 PM UTC

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People have been modifying their cars since cars have existed, an electric car shouldn’t be anything new.

Up until v recently cars were not remotely accessible and part of a command-and-control network which Teslas are (perhaps other modern cars are too, I only know Tesla because I have one) . I know that the car reports practically all user events to Tesla in real time over the cell network (eg, open door), and I know it has root access. I don't know if that root is available remotely and I don't know if foundational co…

Post by ultrahax » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 10:08 PM UTC

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A professional scientist I know (tenured, professor) recruited me to set up a backtesting framework for a predictive finance model. When the results were not as they expected (this person does not work in finance and never has), they asked to see the code, then told me that claude had found a problem with the way some of the calculations were done (there was actually no problem), supplied the claude comments, and tol…

I work with a bunch of PHD's and have been since before ai coding. Their code is aways terrible, and they constantly think it's good. The exercise is always the same: explain the math to me, like I'm 5, then we profile it and see what is faster. Oddly Claude Code, integrated into their IDE's has made this situation happen much less. I never want to work in a place again where the fun way to start the Monday meeting i…