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garlic

The world's fastest apk (android)/java open source decompiler

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5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
891GitHub stars
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The world's fastest apk (android)/java open source decompiler

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-06-03 12:14:29 UTC to 2025-07-27 11:27:46 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

01232025-06-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 commentsJun 22025-06-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2025-06-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-06-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 232025-06-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-07-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-07-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-07-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJul 21

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jun 22025-06-02 00:00:00 UTC2025-06-09 00:00:00 UTC312
Jun 92025-06-09 00:00:00 UTC2025-06-16 00:00:00 UTC110
Jun 162025-06-16 00:00:00 UTC2025-06-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 232025-06-23 00:00:00 UTC2025-06-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 302025-06-30 00:00:00 UTC2025-07-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 72025-07-07 00:00:00 UTC2025-07-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 142025-07-14 00:00:00 UTC2025-07-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 212025-07-21 00:00:00 UTC2025-07-28 00:00:00 UTC110

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Ask HN: Open source projects make money?

I launched a open source project of decompile Android/Java(https://github.com/neocanable/garlic) two years ago, It is very small and super fast, and it can be easily integrated with other projects, such as modifying the bytecode of jvm/dalvik. What confuses me now is that I want to make money from this project, but I can only think of providing customized services. Can anyone give me some advice? Or should I give up the idea of making money on this project?
6 points · Open discussion
I am always curious how different C programs decide how to manage memory. In this case there are is a custom string library. Functions returned owned heap-allocated strings. However, I think there's a problem where static strings are used interchangably with heap-allocated strings, such as in the function `string class_simple_name(string full)` ( https://github.com/neocanable/garlic/blob/72357ddbcffdb75641... ) Sometimes it returns a static string like `g_str_int` and sometimes a newly heap-allocated string, such as returned by `class_type_array_name(g_str_int, depth)`. Callers have no way to properly release the memory allocated by this function.
In Show HN: I wrote a Java decompiler in pure C language

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