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cbmc

C Bounded Model Checker

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6Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.2KGitHub stars
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C Bounded Model Checker

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:45:45 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-03-11 00:05:41 UTC to 2024-03-28 23:57:28 UTC.

01232018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

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Or cbmc (some interesting papers : http://www.cprover.org/cbmc/applications/), they're on GitHub : https://github.com/diffblue/cbmc), seems to also handle java, not sure... Or angr (http://angr.io) which works on binaries and is in python and is loads of fun to use... On small codebases ? Still some people have used it in combination with AFL to help the fuzzer when it's stuck ('driller' : https://github.com/shellphish/driller) Or manticore (you'll need IDA Pro there ?) : https://blog.trailofbits.com/2017/04/27/manticore-symbolic-e... There's a good survey there : https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00502 (no cbmc though). But nickpsecurity is right, Klee seems to be the place where most of the interesting stuff seems to be happening right now. The recent improvements in SMT/SAT solvers bring back lots of techs that were thought impractical (forma
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l proof, symbolic execution...) a while back.
In Symbolic Execution: Intuition and Implementation

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