Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

Published: (May 9, 2026 at 11:01 PM EDT)
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Source: Hacker News


⚠️ Collection Error: Content refinement error: Error: 429 “you (bkperio) have reached your weekly usage limit, upgrade for higher limits: https://ollama.com/upgrade (ref: fe567999-e55e-49f9-a0f3-71d5628624ca)”


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: 117

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