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Brennan Moore
Personal blog · zamiang.com/writingstartupscareerprogramming
Brennan Moore's personal blog at zamiang.com covers startups, career and programming. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Debugging a Live Saturn V”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-13, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Brennan Moore's short piece on debugging a live Saturn V, which covers the rocket's hardware and computing. One commenter cites it as related reading alongside a video on the Saturn V's Launch Vehicle Digital Computer.
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Writing and photos by Brennan Moore
Most-linked posts?
- Debugging a Live Saturn V2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-12-22
What Hacker News says?
This reminds me of this short piece about debugging a live Saturn V ( http://www.zamiang.com/post/debugging-a-live-saturn-v ), and also a detailed video about the Saturn V's Launch Vehicle Digital Computer ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mMK6iSZsAs ) — it had 112 KB of dual-redundant hand-woven magnetic core memory. (Links borrowed from my weekly newsletter about the space industry called Orbital Index https://or…
Comment linking /post/debugging-a-live-saturn-v
on “A circuit board from the Saturn V rocket, reverse-engineered and explained”Submitted Debugging a Live Saturn V as a story · 276 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debugging a Live Saturn V as a story · 123 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Don't Do Live Coding Interviews as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning from a hypergrowth startup (7x staff/year) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted No flex zone: The case for the codeless Internet startup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to build trust and foster high impact small teams as a story · 1 points
HN discussion