Hacker News with Generative AI: Memoirs

Skunk Works (asun9.com)
Early last year, a project I had been working on for a while got canned. Around the same time I read Ben Rich's memoir of his time at Lockheed's famed Skunk Works division, and I've been turning it over in my mind since then.
Software, Memoirs, Lockheed, Skunk Works
8 points by 1sembiyan 18 days ago | 0 comments
Rockets and People: A Four-Volume Memoir by Boris Chertok (NASA History Series) (nasa.gov)
Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space.
Space Exploration, History, Memoirs, Soviet Union
4 points by mepian 96 days ago | 0 comments
Fiddler – My Mistakes (textslashplain.com)
On a flight back from Redmond last week, I finally read Linus Torvalds’ 2002 memoir “Just For Fun.”
Software, Memoirs, Technology
6 points by tech234a 129 days ago | 0 comments
Brian Kernighan Reflects on Unix: A History and a Memoir [video] (youtube.com)
Unix, Operating Systems, History, Computer Science, Memoirs
173 points by zdw 143 days ago | 32 comments