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The roots of trust for all architectures

9 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 8 comments · first 2020-02-10 · latest 2025-08-28

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  1. …https://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/wiki/Stage0 [4] https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/stage0/ [5] https://github.com/oriansj/bootstrap-seeds
    comment by mananaysiempre · 2025-08-28 · in The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami
  2. …u.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-... [2] https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/stage0/ [3] https://github.com/oriansj/bootstrap-seeds
    comment by mananaysiempre · 2025-04-08 · in Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply Chain Security
  3. …a lost cause in the case of the binary seed anyway, so you might as well shoot for more simplicity. https://github.com/oriansj/bootstrap-seeds/blob/4715ae5292a6... is down to 512 bytes, and it's clearly possible to go further than that
    comment by kragen · 2024-08-27 · in Bootstrappable Builds
  4. …contains two types of comment annotations corresponding to the different software that parses it. https://github.com/oriansj/bootstrap-seeds/blob/master/POSIX...
    comment by tetris11 · 2023-12-10 · in Cramming a tiny program into a tiny ELF file
  5. …basically the hand-documentation of those bytes then. Handwritten ELF header and assembly code. [0] https://github.com/oriansj/bootstrap-seeds/blob/master/POSIX...
    comment by jowea · 2023-10-29 · in NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully independently rebuilt
  6. The bootstrap seed, https://github.com/oriansj/bootstrap-seeds/blob/master/POSIX... , is a tiny interpreter that takes a much larger program written in a special-purpose, bytecode-based language. This proceeds in turn once or twice…
    comment by wahern · 2023-05-25 · in SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes
  7. …as trusted, which I think is a good thing. (I'm not involved in the project, just an admirer). [1]: https://github.com/oriansj/bootstrap-seeds/blob/b09a8b8cbcb6...
    comment by movq · 2022-08-20 · in Zig is now self–hosted by default
  8. …?) Edit: this how it's "assembled": sed 's/[;#].*$//g' $input_file | xxd -r -p > $output_file See: https://github.com/oriansj/bootstrap-seeds/blob/master/READM...
    comment by Aissen · 2021-05-04 · in Bootstrapping from Hex to Bison to GCC
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    A 737byte static init/shell
    story by z29LiTp5qUC30n · 2020-02-10 · 0 comments