SMRTR TechSep 15, 2025Hacker News

Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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A developer repurposed a discarded vape's microcontroller (PUYA C642F15) into a functioning web server using semihosting and SLIP protocol. Despite limited specs (24MHz processor, 24KiB storage, 3KiB RAM), the optimized server achieved impressive 20ms ping times and 160ms page loads after improving the data buffering system.

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