Ttar 2.4 KB freestanding TAR archiver written in C, no Libc
Details
- External ID
- 48502574
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Ttar 2.4 KB freestanding TAR archiver written in C, no Libc
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- June 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5484972677595629
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- minimal tar archiver in c
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Writing a 2.4 KB freestanding C program that operates without the standard C library (libc) requires low-level systems programming, direct POSIX syscall interfaces, and binary size optimization.
What it would actually take: The project requires writing raw C or assembly that directly invokes Linux/x86_64 kernel system calls (sys_read, sys_write, sys_open) via inline assembly without relying on libc runtime or CRT0. A developer needs deep expertise in the USTAR file specification, binary elf layout manipulation, custom linker scripts, and compiler flags (-nostdlib, -ffreestanding).
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #89 of 194 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 224 days after the earliest competitor.
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