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Show HN: A (marginally) useful x86-64 ELF executable in 301 bytes

https://github.com/meribold/btry
17•meribold•2d ago

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emanuele-em•2d ago
301 bytes! The base64 one-liner install is a nice flex. Accepting an infinite loop when energy_full doesn't exist is peak code golf, perfectly reasonable when every byte counts. Is there a writeup on the assembly somewhere?
zahlman•19m ago
The xz step doesn't seem to be doing very much, though. It seems the decoded data is currently 278 bytes versus a 298-byte decompressed result.
captn3m0•59m ago
I have a use for this: A somewhat portable one-liner to go in my waybar/sway/i3 configs!
vparseval•48m ago
Love it! It's entirely inapplicable and useless to me but it embodies the spirit of Show HN and what the spirit of programming in the 80s and 90s was.

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Show HN: A (marginally) useful x86-64 ELF executable in 301 bytes

https://github.com/meribold/btry
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