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

A developer built a web server in assembly and titled it as a cry for meaning—scoring 221 upvotes and 95 comments. This stunt outperforms #3 in engagement by 134 votes, yet asks whether low-level coding offers purpose or just elaborately wastes time. With only 1,200 lines of x86-64 assembly, it processes HTTP/1.1 requests at under 2 microseconds each. The project deliberately lacks comments, mirroring the developer's existential query: can pure technical rigor fill a void? It's faster than the average web server built in higher-level languages, but the real comparison is to #2's pragmatic Rust rewrite—where efficiency serves utility, not soul-searching.