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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.<p>I’ve also written a more detailed writeup here: <a href="https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/" rel="nofollow">https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/</a>
Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer
Local AI needs to be the norm
Local AI needs to be the norm
I’ve banned query strings
Related: <a href="https://susam.net/no-query-strings.html" rel="nofollow">https://susam.net/no-query-strings.html</a>
I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler
Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler
Mythical Man Month
AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures
Internet Archive Switzerland
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Internet Archive Switzerland
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OpenAI’s WebRTC problem
Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML
Examples: <a href="https://thariqs.github.io/html-effectiveness/" rel="nofollow">https://thariqs.github.io/html-effectiveness/</a><p>Related: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/8/unreasonable-effectiveness-of-html/" rel="nofollow">https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/8/unreasonable-effectiven...</a>
EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"
Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
<a href="https://xunroll.com/thread/2053047748191232310" rel="nofollow">https://xunroll.com/thread/2053047748191232310</a><p>Recent and related: <i>Zig → Rust porting guide</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016880">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016880</a> - May 2026 (540 comments)
Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
<a href="https://xunroll.com/thread/2053047748191232310" rel="nofollow">https://xunroll.com/thread/2053047748191232310</a><p>Recent and related: <i>Zig → Rust porting guide</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016880">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016880</a> - May 2026 (540 comments)
David Attenborough's 100th Birthday
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
<a href="https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/2052830948685676605" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/2052830948685676605</a><p><a href="https://xcancel.com/wtgowers/status/2052830948685676605" rel="nofollow">https://xcancel.com/wtgowers/status/2052830948685676605</a>
Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
Related: <i>Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039362">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039362</a><p>also: <i>Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063199">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063199</a>