GoKawiilDave's Garage community shrinks a functional Windows app to near-minimal x86 assembly
A GitHub project called HelloAssembly, tied to Dave's Garage YouTube episodes, challenges developers to build the smallest possible uncompressed Windows executable that still runs a full message loop, a working title bar with minimize/maximize/close buttons, a system menu, and centered text. The repo hosts multiple competing versions—an optimized original, a shellcode-style variant, and one with a hand-written PE header—showing how far low-level tricks can shrink a working GUI app.