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Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
This is ymawky, a static file web server for MacOS written entirely in ARM64 assembly. It supports GET, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, and OPTIONS requests, and supports Range: bytes=X-Y headers (which allows scrubbing for video streaming). It decodes percent-encoded URLs, strictly enforces docroot, serves custom error pages for any HTTP error response, supports directory listing, and has (some) mitigations against slowloris-like attacks. I’ve also written a more detailed writeup here: https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48080587 Points: 64 # Comments: 16
Silverback Imfura took a chance, and ended up alone
44 points, 12 comments on Hacker News
Sparse Cholesky Elimination Tree
Article URL: https://www.reidatcheson.com/sparse/linear/cholesky/2026/04/09/etree.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48080221 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Analysis points to a unexpected cause of reading difficulties
11 points, 16 comments on Hacker News
Chasing Chicago's movable bridges (2014)
52 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
60fps Video on a CGA? – The GlyphBlaster
21 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
France moves to break encrypted messaging
Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/france-moves-to-break-encrypted-messaging Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48078811 Points: 106 # Comments: 60
Show HN: Rust but Lisp
Article URL: https://github.com/ThatXliner/rust-but-lisp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48078575 Points: 96 # Comments: 55
Web Server on a Nintendo Wii
71 points, 15 comments on Hacker News
FreeBSD: Local Privilege Escalation via Execve()
49 points, 39 comments on Hacker News
I caught the car
17 points, 11 comments on Hacker News
Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15
95 points, 21 comments on Hacker News
Where Have All the Complex Windows Malware and Their Analyses Gone?
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Surfel-based global illumination on the web
Article URL: https://juretriglav.si/surfel-based-global-illumination-on-the-web/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077395 Points: 26 # Comments: 0
Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot
61 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
Laptops all have built-in security tokens these days
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Meta's embrace of A.I. is making its employees miserable
165 points, 116 comments on Hacker News
Notes on using GNU Emacs' Tramp system in an unusual shell environment
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Fixing QuickLook (2023)
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Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms
16 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
VGA Memory Access Is Complicated
23 points, 4 comments on Hacker News
Zed Editor Theme-Builder
112 points, 36 comments on Hacker News
Shelf Source: Tom MacWright
5 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Yggdrasil Network as an Embedded Go Library
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Hacking Time: Spoofing Atomic Clocks with Audio Harmonics
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CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers
88 points, 46 comments on Hacker News
Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? (2005)
29 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
I’ve banned query strings
185 points, 94 comments on Hacker News
I Will Not Add Query Strings to Your URLs
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