Margaret Hamilton at 90: Writing software to land on the Moon
mircomusolesi · x · 2026-08-18
The author celebrates the 90th birthday of computing pioneer Margaret Hamilton. The post reviews her contribution to the Apollo program, highlighting that she wrote the landing software with extremely limited hardware resources (4KB RAM). The author uses this to illustrate that high-quality code doesn't always require expensive compute like Nvidia H100s, also mentioning Ada Lovelace.
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