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quirino 63 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give...

I think the parent's point is: a couple of years ago handwriting was the only option. You'd see a post like this and know it was something special.

With LLMs, we can't tell anymore if something is a labor of love with hundreds of hours of work behind it, or half a dozen prompts to Claude Code.

wkjagt 62 days ago [–]

Oh yeah I totally get that, and I feel the same, but the author of this project specifically says that it's hand written (first paragraph of the readme in the repo).

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