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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. 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?
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