Decomp Academy
Shares rank 15 of 17 online courses by recommenders
Interactive lessons teaching how to decompile GameCube PowerPC assembly into C, with a playground for practice. Critics report a broken compiler service and LLM-flavoured text.
Interactive lessons teaching how to decompile GameCube PowerPC assembly into C, with a playground for practice. Critics report a broken compiler service and LLM-flavoured text.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 71%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Interactive way to learn decompiling
“Decomp Academy is an interactive way to learn how to decompile PowerPC assembly back into C.”
Comment from 27 Jun 2026 on Hacker News Purple theme suits GameCube styling
“The purple theme seems fine and appropriate to me, given the GameCube's color scheme”
Comment from 28 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Compiler service fails with disk error
“The compiler service seems to be broken, since in both lessons and the playground I just get "Could not write source: No space left on device (os error 28)".”
Comment from 28 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C” Doubts about time to continue
“I have worked through the warmup exercises, but I doubt I'll have the time to continue much past that.”
Comment from 28 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C” Text reads as LLM-generated
“when I was presented with a wall of LLM-flavoured text”
Comment from 28 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C”
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What people said
5 of the 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“The purple theme seems fine and appropriate to me, given the GameCube's color scheme”
“I have worked through the warmup exercises, but I doubt I'll have the time to continue much past that.”
“The compiler service seems to be broken, since in both lessons and the playground I just get "Could not write source: No space left on device (os error 28)".”
“when I was presented with a wall of LLM-flavoured text”
“Decomp Academy is an interactive way to learn how to decompile PowerPC assembly back into C.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.