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Web server for Linux written in amd64 assembly.

10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 3 stories, 7 comments · first 2014-02-03 · latest 2026-03-28

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  1. …within this space, the better. I have had an idea recently where I can use something like https://github.com/nemasu/asmttpd (assembly webserver) created by nemasu (they are on HN with same name) and deploying this under container…
    comment by Imustaskforhelp · 2026-03-28 · in TreeTrek – A raw Git repository viewer web app
  2. …as builder RUN apt update RUN apt install -y make yasm as31 nasm binutils git RUN git clone https://github.com/nemasu/asmttpd.git asmttpd RUN mv asmttpd/* . RUN rm -rd asmttpd RUN make release # i have the upx binary on my machine in this…
  3. …rough coming back to an old project, I thought I had left enough comments on one of my projects ( https://github.com/nemasu/asmttpd ), but I was still scratching my head a bit in some places.
    comment by nemasu · 2018-03-30 · in The Art of Assembly Language (1996)
  4. Reminded me of people making docker containers out of this: https://github.com/nemasu/asmttpd eg. https://hub.docker.com/r/0xff/asmttpd/ 7KB web server container.
    comment by nemasu · 2017-09-29 · in A 1 KB Docker Container
  5. …(OSX and Linux at least share a calling convention, unlink Windows). I'll upstream what I have. [0] https://github.com/nemasu/asmttpd/blob/master/main.asm#L24
  6. …Maybe writing something like an HTTP server in assembly, or something? I remember this ( https://github.com/nemasu/asmttpd ) popping up on HN some time ago. Writing your own kernel, or compiler? Building your own 8-bit microcomputer, and…
  7. Pretty neat! It's awesome how assembly these days is reasonably high level: https://github.com/nemasu/asmttpd/blob/master/http.asm It dawns on me why we couldn't have shortcuts for several patterns that show up everywhere: - mov, mov, mov…