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Products that do what 500+ Hours so far on the 4.77Mhz DOS web server does

Warning: As soon as I post this I know the machine is going to be basically DoS'ed. It's not hard to DoS a DOS machine. The machine may refuse to serve your request, but it will stay running, and that's the important part. This is a follow-up to something I posted three weeks ago. Ye old web server running the mTCP HTTP server on DOS has now passed 500 hours of runtime and it is still going, at least until the power glitches. The stats so far: Run-time: 505 hours TCP/IP connections: 34230 Objects served: 38865 TCP Packets sent/received: 996627, 889798 All packet types…

1. 1HI
   Hellepoll is a blazingly-fast async HTTP server written in C++▲35

   This is based on an approach I made for a very high performance message and video multiplexing server. The project died, but I'm glad I get to share the a basic version with some http test code now. I admit this is the second time I've tried to show this off here today; I posted earlier but it got lost when no-one was watching :(

   2011 · github.com

2. 2MH
   Micro HTTP server in 22 lines of C▲223

   2021 · twitter.com

3. 3
   Sandstorm.io▲101

   A better way to run a personal server

   2015

4. 4AU
   A UDP to TCP proxy server for sending HTTP requests with zero latency▲146

   2020 · github.com

5. 5DT
   During the last week, I built a SPDY server.▲85

   2012 · github.com

6. 6LB
   Live Bitcoin Transactions from around the globe in WebGL▲34

   I built this over the weekend. Any feedback is appreciated. Please note you will need a WebGL enabled browser. Thank you for checking it out. --UPDATE-- HN Traffic is strangling earthbit. There is sporadic downtime due to the web services I am using, if no transactions appear after a few seconds, then please try again in an hour.

   2013 · earthbit.net

7. 7WV
   WebRTC Video v1.0, low-latency video streaming from robots▲9

   After streaming over 25,000 hours and 13 TB of video from over 200 robots, 2 years of production use by over a dozen customers, 200,000 sessions, 25 minor releases, and 120 patch releases, we believe it is time to declare WebRTC Video stable. Recent improvements included in v1.0: - vastly increased robustness over poor networks (packet loss, bandwidth fluctuation), - added hardware acceleration for Intel chipsets such as HD Graphics (in addition to the existing Nvidia and RockChip support), - added local mode, allowing offline usage on local networks, - 3x less CPU usage when using software…

   2025 · transitiverobotics.com

8. 8AM
   A minimal Fortran TCP client and server▲110

   2019 · github.com

9. 9
   Soup CLI▲107

   Fine-tune an 8B LLM on a 4 GB laptop GPU

   28d ago · trysoup.dev

10. 10UB
    Use BIOS ram hacks to make an SSH server for MS-DOS, INT 10 13h OS's▲65

    2014 · github.com

11. 11OD
    Open database tracking 77K public DNS servers every 10 minutes▲7

    Hey HN! We built DNS Directory (https://dnsdirectory.com), a free, searchable database of public DNS servers with live monitoring every 10 minutes. We needed to find an up-to-date list of DNS servers used by carriers around the world for a proxy fingerprinting / web-scraping project but we were shocked to find that it didn’t exist so we built it ourselves in an internal Hackathon We’re adding more features but so far we: Test 77K+ servers every ~10 minutes Allow filtering by uptime, location, security features (ad blocking, malware protection, DNSSEC) Show info on IPv6…

    Dec 2025 · dnsdirectory.com

12. 12
    The 500MB Club Challenge▲6

    2 CPUs. 500MB RAM. One real Pi. Prove your language.

    Jul 2026 · github.com

13. 13P8
    Pings 8000 servers in 11 seconds: Parallel HTTP/SSH/TCP/Ping library▲22

    2015 · github.com

14. 14GH
    Global HTTP Latency Test▲34

    2013 · geoping.com

15. 15PT
    Ping times between major cities (where we have a server)▲23

    2012 · wondernetwork.com

16. 16AT
    A TCP Proxy in 30 lines of Rust▲19

    2021 · zmedley.com

17. 17CS
    Comet server w/end project, barely breaks a sweat at 1000msg/s▲13

    2011 · splinter.com.au

18. 18
    mcpbeat▲3

    Uptime, installs and code checks for 25,000 MCP servers

    6d ago · mcpbeat.com

19. 19AT
    AsmHTTPd – The tiniest webserver ever written (Linux, x86_64 assembly)▲8

    2014 · github.com

20. 20HS
    HTTP server written in x64 assembly (x86-64)▲12

    2014 · github.com

21. 21SH
    Self-hosted person-to-person WebRTC service▲5

    I've lurked until now, and I'm attention-averse, but here is my toy. I'm certain that I'll regret this, and I'm not sure how much time I'll have to monitor it or follow up, but on the off chance that someone here is stuck at home and wants to play, here it is. https://jerome.puptel.net/abracadabraalakazam The service is hosted on a CPU-optimized DO droplet in San Francisco. I've set the maximum number of calls to 10, but I have no idea what the real limit will be. I'll try to keep an eye on it. I'll leave it up until someone finds a critical bug or I find that no one is using…

    2020

22. 22AM
    A MUD-server using lua coroutines▲9

    I recently finished a round of tweaks on my barebones mud-server and thought HN might be interested. https://github.com/endgame/MudCore It sits somewhere between socketmud and a full mud like tbamud in that it handles all the socket work and telnet negotiation, but it makes no assumptions about anything else. The other interesting thing is that it can talk to other services using ZeroMQ. I'm interested in reactions, particularly in terms of coding style, documentation quality and so on. It's my main "presentation piece" so far, in that it's some of the first code I actually feel proud to…

    2012

23. 23IW
    I wrote a 1-bit WebGPU runtime to run a 1.7B LLM in the browser▲5

    Jul 2026 · aidekin.com

24. 24AF
    A fast, asynchronous, and easy-to-use TCP server library for the JVM▲6

    2019 · github.com

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