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24 alternatives to A static file server in x86 Assembly

A box for misfit toys. Contribute to jeaye/toybox development by creating an account on GitHub.

A static file server written entirely in x86 Assembly, launched in 2019. The project serves files directly from disk without relying on higher-level programming languages. It's designed for developers interested in… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A static file server in x86 Assembly launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    This is ymawky, a static file web server for MacOS written entirely in ARM64 assembly. It supports GET, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, and OPTIONS requests, and supports Range: bytes=X-Y headers (which allows scrubbing for video streaming). It decodes percent-encoded URLs, strictly enforces docroot, serves custom error pages for any HTTP error response, supports directory listing, and has (some) mitigations against slowloris-like attacks. I’ve also written a more detailed writeup here: https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Firefiles▲253

    Get your own file-hosting service in minutes.

    2022 · firefiles.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Or more precisely, my little site maker... It is a personal tool that I thoroughly enjoyed making, and enjoy using to write my website . A caveat before any more; nobody was supposed to promote this insanity. Like, terrible things have been done involving inotify and xdotool. But. It showed up on HN some months ago. That too while it was still, shall we say, fermenting. It got "done" some time thence, and of course one could not let the half-past just be. So here we are, for better or worse. Thank you HN mods for helping me repost! _\\// The README explains all, animated GIFs and…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A purely bash web server, no socat, netcat, etc... - GitHub - dzove855/Bash-web-server: A purely bash web server, no socat, netcat, etc...

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    ByteNite▲206

    Hi HN, I’m one of the creators of ByteNite (https://bytenite.com). We built it for developers running compute-heavy containerized workloads (AI, ETL, batch jobs) who are frustrated with the limitations of traditional serverless platforms: timeouts, cold starts, orchestration complexity, and limited runtime control. ByteNite is a serverless platform that lets you submit distributed jobs packaged as Docker containers. You define simple or complex fan-out/fan-in logic, set your hardware requirements, and we handle the rest—distributing execution across warm cloud runners (CPUs,…

    2025 · docs.bytenite.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello. I wrote a multitasking 16-bit real mode "operating system" that works on every IBM PC compatible computer, and a TCP/IP stack for it. Then I wrote an HTTP server for it.

    2022 · 486servu.dy.fi · its alternatives →

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    To try it out, simply build the project yourself from source, or use attached bootable ISO image of the system (in Releases on Github) and run it in QEMU. https://blog.vxn.dev/rou2exos-rusted-edition

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A self-hostable Wasm sandbox for JavaScript workers.

    Jun 2026 · kyushu.dev · its alternatives →

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    superfile▲188

    A modern, visual file manager for the terminal

    Jul 2026 · superfile.dev · its alternatives →

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    Deploy static sites with a single command. rsync and you

    2024 · pgs.sh · its alternatives →

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    I built this because I was always creating machines on GH actions to test builds on different OS, and I wanted a tight CLI that could do it. I always saw Actions as this great resources and ephemeral machines you could do dev work in just were a natural way for me to work, so this grew out of that workflow. I didn't expect it to blow up, so it wasn't 100% finished when I posted it. But it should stabilize pretty quickly. Happy to know what you think and talk about it.

    May 2026 · ghost.charity · its alternatives →

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    A little web server written in C for Linux. Supports: CGI, Reverse Proxy. Single threaded using I/O multiplexing (select).

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    µServer in Bash. Contribute to EddySchauHai/bashttp development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    This is ymawky, a now-dynamic web server written entirely in ARM64 Assembly. I've previously posted about ymawky here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48080587 In the past month and a half, I've made some pretty major improvements: I've added CGI scripting support, so the server now supports query strings and dynamic content; and I've fully ported ymawky to run on Linux, rather than macOS-only. In addition to GET/PUT/HEAD/DELETE/OPTIONS requests, because of CGI support ymawky also accepts POST requests (only to CGI resources for now). I've also updated…

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    filesharing for the meatspace era. Contribute to andunieee/flipflop development by creating an account on GitHub.

    9d ago · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Platform for deploying static sites and frontend applications easily. Automatic SSL, deploy previews, reverse proxy, and more. - getmeli/meli

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A (WIP) WebAssembly System Interface implementation for Deno - caspervonb/deno-wasi

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Chunk co-founder here. We spent the last 2 weeks building this to scratch our own itch: As developers, we often have problems that could be solved just by running a few lines of code. Sometimes, running this code on your local machine is fine. But other time, the code need to run automatically reacting to external events or to run continuously, which means, it needs to run on a server somewhere. So now, you have to find a cloud provider, to package or build the code and finally to deploy it. All of that for what could be literally be 4 lines of code. We couldn’t find an easier way to do…

    2022 · chunk.run · its alternatives →

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    Old (2022) proof of concept: Zero-Config CLI to Deploy Static Websites to IPFS - ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-deploy

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn your static pages into dynamic experiences

    2024 · netlify.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello, World! written in seemingly "gibberish" x86 assembly using obfuscation on the assembly and machine code -level - phoreverpheebs/gibberish

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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