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

imtomt — Sun, 10 May 2026 03:01:44 +0000

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: 278

# Comments: 122

Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable

JumpCrisscross — Sat, 09 May 2026 18:33:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/technology/meta-ai-employees-miserable.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077126

Points: 392

# Comments: 426

Zed Editor Theme-Builder

cuechan — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:30:39 +0000

Article URL: https://zed.dev/theme-builder

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076651

Points: 218

# Comments: 64

I’ve banned query strings

susam — Sat, 09 May 2026 16:28:36 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076173

Points: 405

# Comments: 217

Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels

LorenDB — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:40:58 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/apple-is-increasing-my-cortisol-levels

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48075366

Points: 289

# Comments: 194

GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch

Georgelemental — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:11:10 +0000

Article URL: https://cyberinsider.com/grapheneos-fixes-android-vpn-leak-google-refused-to-patch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48075144

Points: 285

# Comments: 111

The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism

ColinWright — Sat, 09 May 2026 13:48:32 +0000

Article URL: https://matduggan.com/the-intolerable-hypocrisy-of-cyberlibertarianism/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074952

Points: 331

# Comments: 293

Internet Archive Switzerland

hggh — Sat, 09 May 2026 12:00:30 +0000

https://internetarchive.ch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074265

Points: 609

# Comments: 97

Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc

heldrida — Sat, 09 May 2026 10:12:55 +0000

https://xunroll.com/thread/2053047748191232310

Recent and related: Zig → Rust porting guide - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016880 - May 2026 (540 comments)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073680

Points: 551

# Comments: 515

LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate

rbanffy — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:44:34 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073246

Points: 410

# Comments: 163

EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"

muse900 — Sat, 09 May 2026 05:52:12 +0000

Article URL: https://cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs-closing-in-age-verification-push/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072190

Points: 546

# Comments: 376

Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

pretext — Sat, 09 May 2026 04:53:52 +0000

Examples: https://thariqs.github.io/html-effectiveness/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071940

Points: 460

# Comments: 258

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

_alternator_ — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:41:42 +0000

https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/2052830948685676605

https://xcancel.com/wtgowers/status/2052830948685676605

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071262

Points: 631

# Comments: 463

Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging

tcp_handshaker — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:47:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pcmag.com/news/meta-shuts-down-end-to-end-encryption-for-instagram-dms-messaging

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069192

Points: 321

# Comments: 219

You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)

MrBruh — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:40:39 +0000

Article URL: https://ze3tar.github.io/post-zcrx.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067734

Points: 210

# Comments: 139

Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

anonymousiam — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:45:58 +0000

Related: Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039362

also: Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063199

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067119

Points: 1461

# Comments: 546

Teaching Claude Why

pretext — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:59:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/teaching-claude-why

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066592

Points: 253

# Comments: 142

AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures

speckx — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:55:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jefftk.com/p/ai-is-breaking-two-vulnerability-cultures

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066524

Points: 416

# Comments: 167

Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal

scrlk — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:25:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/apple-intel-have-reached-preliminary-chip-making-deal-wsj-reports-2026-05-08/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066169

Points: 227

# Comments: 143

The React2Shell Story

mufeedvh — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:39:48 +0000

Article URL: https://lachlan.nz/blog/the-react2shell-story/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065511

Points: 218

# Comments: 47

Cartoon Network Flash Games

willmeyers — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:29:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-game-exhibitions/cartoon-network-flash-games

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065360

Points: 407

# Comments: 127

Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM

xngbuilds — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:10:35 +0000

Article URL: https://btxx.org/posts/memory/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064312

Points: 246

# Comments: 97

Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off

droidjj — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:58:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/transportation/926741/tesla-cybertruck-cheaper-recall

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063240

Points: 215

# Comments: 270

Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged

ribtoks — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:56:10 +0000

Article URL: https://privatecaptcha.com/blog/google-cloud-fraud-defence-wei/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063199

Points: 693

# Comments: 354

Just Use Go

xngbuilds — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:40:22 +0000

Article URL: https://blainsmith.com/articles/just-fucking-use-go/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062997

Points: 210

# Comments: 197

A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking

mwheelz — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:37:05 +0000

Article URL: https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062178

Points: 600

# Comments: 290

Poland is now among the 20 largest economies

surprisetalk — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:30:05 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/poland-economy-growth-g20-gdp-26fe06e120398410f8d773ba5661e7aa

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062117

Points: 1028

# Comments: 826

US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

david-gpu — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:10:25 +0000

https://apnews.com/article/trump-ufos-uap-aliens-pentagon-re...

https://www.war.gov/UFO/#release

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061938

Points: 329

# Comments: 520

David Attenborough's 100th Birthday

defrost — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:03:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3pww9g0p5o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061884

Points: 856

# Comments: 159

An Introduction to Meshtastic

ColinWright — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:22:11 +0000

Article URL: https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061566

Points: 507

# Comments: 184