This was created as part of the Bootstrappable Builds project to go from an MBR of machine code plus a ton of source all the way up to a full distro.
The Goals section from the projects main page are pretty interesting: https://github.com/oriansj/stage0
This is a set of manually created hex programs in a Cthulhu Path to madness fashion. Which only have the goal
of creating a bootstrapping path to a C compiler capable of compiling GCC, with only the explicit requirement
of a single 1 KByte binary or less.
Additionally, all code must be able to be understood by 70% of the population of programmers. If the code can
not be understood by that volume, it needs to be altered until it satisfies the above requirement.