Hacker News with Generative AI: People

Show HN: Map showing which notable people were born in your backyard (tjukanovt.github.io)
Using data from Morgane Laouenan et al., the map is showing birthplaces of the most "notable people" around the world.
It's the Most Indispensable Machine in the World–and It Depends on This Woman (wsj.com)
BOISE, Idaho—Brienna Hall has the most valuable role that you’ll never see at the most vital company that you’ve never heard of.
Francois Chollet is leaving Google (googleblog.com)
Today, we're announcing that Francois Chollet, the creator of Keras and a leading figure in the AI world, is embarking on a new chapter in his career outside of Google.
Software is about people, not code (2020) (letterstoanewdeveloper.com)
Dear new developer,
Simon Verity believed in working the medieval way (economist.com)
The first thing you noticed about Simon Verity was his hair. It stuck out in wild grey corkscrews, as if sprayed with the fiercest sort of gel. That grey was not a sign of age, or only partly. It was mostly stone-dust, accumulated until he could never wash it out. That same dust covered the rest of his comfortably trampish clothes. When he walked down the street, he liked to think, he looked like an apparition.
The Charming, Eccentric, Blessed Life of Lee Maxwell (5280.com)
OpenAI co-founder John Schulman announces he is joining Anthropic (twitter.com)
Ken Leishman (wikipedia.org)
Mourning Daniel Bristot de Oliveira (lwn.net)