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Nathan Otterness
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Nathan Otterness's personal blog at nathanotterness.com covers systems and programming. Since 2021, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Tiny ELF Files: Revisited in 2021”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its posts on minimal executables, such as a tiny ELF file revisited in 2021 with a 120-byte x86_64 Linux Hello World and a simple ELF write-up.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Tiny ELF Files: Revisited in 20218 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2021-10-11
What Hacker News says?
As in the Portable Executable file format? There are no tricks used in this article that rely on the specifics of ELF, unlike some more extreme examples [1] that abuse every trick in the book to shave off more bytes from executables. If anything, PE piggybacks on top of COFF which is a complete mess of a file format. I'm currently writing a standalone library for reading and writing toolchain file formats [2] (to re…
Comment linking /2021/10/tiny_elf_modernized.html
on “A Simple ELF”Submitted Tiny ELF Files: Revisited in 2021 as a story · 140 points
HN discussionOh it has been done: https://nathanotterness.com/2021/10/hello_105.asm
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on “The smallest Hello World program”Submitted Tiny ELF Files for Linux: Revisited in 2021 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionNow, can we make it even smaller applying https://nathanotterness.com/2021/10/tiny_elf_modernized.html ? We shouldn't need the full ELF header...
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on “The smallest Hello World program”Submitted Tiny ELF Files: Revisited in 2021 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRelated: A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm... Tiny ELF Files: Revisited in 2021: https://nathanotterness.com/2021/10/tiny_elf_modernized.html
Comment linking /2021/10/tiny_elf_modernized.html
on “How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?”Submitted The smallest ELF executable (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou can make super small hello world binaries if you try. https://nathanotterness.com/2021/10/tiny_elf_modernized.html has a 120 byte hello world program for x86_64 ELF.
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on “How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?”