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NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era

Hacker News Top · 2026-05-18 Cached

The article examines the reality behind the popular story that NASA's Voyager spacecraft run on Fortran code that no one can read, clarifying that the onboard software is actually assembly language for specialized hardware, and discusses the challenge of maintaining 1970s-era systems with a shrinking team of aging engineers.

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

Hacker News Top · 2026-05-10 Cached

ymawky is a web server written entirely in ARM64 assembly for macOS, featuring syscall-only operations without libc and basic HTTP capabilities.

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building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-05-08 Cached

The article introduces 'ymawky', a minimal HTTP web server written entirely in aarch64 assembly for macOS, using raw syscalls without libc wrappers to explore low-level system mechanics.

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