diff --git a/stages/Makefile b/stages/Makefile
index a3821ce..7bc4900 100644
--- a/stages/Makefile
+++ b/stages/Makefile
@@ -31,4 +31,15 @@ $(BUILD)/stage1-hex1.text: $(BUILD)/stage0
 
 $(BUILD)/stage1-hex1: $(BUILD)/stage1-elf $(BUILD)/stage1-hex1.text
 	$(BUILD)/stage1-elf $(BUILD)/stage1-hex1 $(BUILD)/stage1-hex1.text
+	chmod +x $@
 
+verify-hex1: $(BUILD)/stage1-elf $(BUILD)/stage1-hex1
+	$(BUILD)/stage1-hex1 < hex1/helloworld.h1 > $(BUILD)/helloworld.text
+	$(BUILD)/stage1-elf $(BUILD)/helloworld.elf $(BUILD)/helloworld.text
+	chmod +x $(BUILD)/helloworld.elf
+	$(BUILD)/helloworld.elf
+
+
+clean:
+	rm -rf $(BUILD)
+	mkdir -p $(BUILD)
diff --git a/stages/hex1/helloworld.h1 b/stages/hex1/helloworld.h1
index b014837..1922219 100644
--- a/stages/hex1/helloworld.h1
+++ b/stages/hex1/helloworld.h1
@@ -1,71 +1,3 @@
-; ELF header
-; e_ident: u128
-; Magic number: 0x7f454c46 = "\x7fELF"
-7f 45 4c 46
-; EI_CLASS: u8 = ELFCLASS64
-02
-; EI_DATA: u8 = ELFDATA2LSB
-01
-; EI_VERSION: u8 = EV_CURRENT
-01
-; EI_OSABI: u8 = ELFOSABI_NONE
-00
-; EI_ABIVERSION: u8 = 0
-00
-; EI_PAD: [u8; 7]
-00 00 00 00 00 00 00
-; e_type: u16 = E_EXEC
-02 00
-; e_machine: u16 = EM_X86_64
-3e 00
-; e_version: u32 = EV_CURRENT
-01 00 00 00
-; e_entry: u64 = 0x400084
-84 00 40 00 00 00 00 00
-; e_phoff: u64 = 0x40
-40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
-; e_shoff: u64 = 0x0
-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
-; e_flags: u32 = 0
-00 00 00 00
-; e_ehsize: u16 = 64
-40 00
-; e_phentsize: u16 = 56
-38 00
-; e_phnum: u16 = 1
-01 00
-; e_shentsize: u16 = 0
-00 00
-; e_shnum: u16 = 0
-00 00
-; e_shstrndx: u16 = 0
-00 00
-; End of ELF header
-;
-; Program header
-; p_type: u32 = PT_LOAD
-01 00 00 00
-; p_flags: u32 = PF_R | PF_X
-05 00 00 00
-; p_offset: u64 = 0
-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
-; p_vaddr: u64 = 0x400000
-00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00
-; p_paddr: u64 = 0x0
-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
-; p_filesz: u64 
-ae 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
-; p_memsz: u64 
-ae 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
-; p_align: u64 = 0x1000
-00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00
-; End of program header
-;
-; Ehdr size = 64 = 0x40
-; Phdr size = 56 = 0x38
-; .text size = 54 = 0x36
-; total 0xae
-;
 ; Code segment
 ;
 ; _start