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

May 9, 2026
ymawky is a static file web server for macOS written entirely in ARM64 assembly, supporting GET/PUT/DELETE/HEAD/OPTIONS, Range byte headers for video scrubbing, percent-encoded URL decoding, directory listing, and Slowloris mitigations. A raw systems programming exercise with zero abstraction layers, relevant to anyone studying OS-level HTTP handling or assembly optimization.