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Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code for the command and lunar modules.

111 mentions on Hacker News by 100 people: 35 stories, 76 comments · first 2016-07-05 · latest 2026-10-08

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  1. …//nassp.sourceforge.net/wiki/Guidance_and_Control_Syste... The source is on Github, too, for example: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminar...
    comment by cbm-vic-20 · 2018-07-17 · in Assembly Language for Beginners [pdf]
  2. …Hamilton and her team. Clean and obviously it worked well. Comments are also interesting to read. https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11
    comment by sedatk · 2018-04-27 · in Ask HN: What are some examples of beautiful x86 assembly code?
  3. …the top-5 list in the post, between 1/4 and 1/3 of the projects have been miscategorized. Ex: - https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11 -> should have been categorized as "Application", not "Documentation". -…
    comment by fermigier · 2017-07-24 · in Most open-source software is libraries or frameworks
  4. …tangere - don't touch me. Honi soit qui mal y pense - May he be shamed who thinks badly of it. [1] https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminar...
    comment by jfoutz · 2017-01-17 · in Some Funny Things Happened on the Way to the Moon (2002)
  5. …team that wrote the Apollo software? Her name is the very first one in the original documentation: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11
    comment by Rooster61 · 2017-01-17 · in Some Funny Things Happened on the Way to the Moon (2002)
  6. …But I think the evidence is definitely in favor of it actually happening. We've got source code: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11 We've got design documents: https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/alsj-LMdocs.html The code and documents…
    comment by MichaelBurge · 2016-12-27 · in America Needs a New Moon Mission
  7. I suggest reading the actual sources for the software: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/ :)
    comment by groovy2shoes · 2016-11-22 · in Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
  8. I can do one better; the source code itself, which has been scanned ( https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11 ), lists Margaret Hamilton as "COLOSSUS programming leader" - COLOSSUS being the command module software - as of March 28, 1969,…
    comment by yaakov34 · 2016-11-19 · in Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
  9. Don't worry — you can find that code at https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11
    comment by glasser · 2016-11-03 · in Apollo Client 0.5
  10. …made from discrete gates and core memory programmed in assembler by Margaret Hamilton and others. https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11 I doubt the satellite bothered with a processor.
    comment by pjc50 · 2016-11-02 · in Abandoned in space in 1967, a US satellite has started transmitting again
  11. …even humanly possible, but I do know that these programmers did not rely on "code completion." [1] https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
    comment by n00b101 · 2016-08-18 · in We found over 10000 bugs in various open source projects
  12. It's on GitHub: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11 Reviewing it would be non-trivial, but in terms of absolute code size, it's not much larger than a moderately-popular open-source project today. It's significantly smaller than…
    comment by nostrademons · 2016-07-19 · in Ask HN: How did NASA make reliable software if they didn't invent unit tests?
  13. Direct link: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11
    comment by e-sushi · 2016-07-11 · in Apollo 11's source code is now on GitHub
  14. I will now be adding this comment to all of my code: HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/BURN_BA...
    comment by lukateake · 2016-07-08 · in Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code
  15. https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/THE_LUN... - Link to referenced code.
    comment by enzanki_ars · 2016-07-08 · in Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code
  16. This is amazing and contains so many gems. I think this one is my favorite module: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/THE_LUN... CAF CODE500 # ASTRONAUT: PLEASE CRANK THE TC BANKCALL # SILLY THING AROUND CADR GOPERF1 TCF…
    comment by elcapitan · 2016-07-07 · in Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code
  17. CA A # SHOULD NEVER HIT THIS LOCATION The 1969 version of "This should never happen". https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/dc4ea6735c4646...
    comment by libria · 2016-07-07 · in Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code
  18. https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/dc4ea6735c4646...
    comment by trynewideas · 2016-07-07 · in Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code
  19. How about the code apparently marked for deletion? https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/dc4ea6735c4646... I've often wondered many things about the cleanliness, maintainability and style of such code (this particular system, in…
    comment by nerdy · 2016-07-07 · in Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code
  20. Someone opened an issue: "Check continuity on O2 cryogenic tanks before allowing stir" https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/issues/3
    comment by blueintegral · 2016-07-07 · in Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code
  21. …of ## soul music in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles from the mid-1950s to ## the mid-1960s. [1] https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/dc4ea6735c4646...
    comment by fasteo · 2016-07-07 · in Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code
  22. …about: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a11/a11.1201-... Here's 1201 being called: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/dc4ea6735c4646... And 1202: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/dc4ea6735c4646...
    comment by js2 · 2016-07-07 · in Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code
  23. And this: GAINBRAK,1 # NUMERO MYSTERIOSO https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/LUNAR_L...
    comment by Anchor · 2016-07-07 · in Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code
  24. BURN_BABY_BURN--MASTER_IGNITION_ROUTINE.s - https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/dc4ea6735c4646...
    comment by sjtgraham · 2016-07-07 · in Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code
  25. …I HOPE HOPE HOPE CADR STOPRATE # TEMPORARY, I HOPE HOPE HOPE TC DOWNFLAG # PERMIT X-AXIS OVERRIDE https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/LUNAR_L...
    comment by uptown · 2016-07-07 · in Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code
  26. …searching for a comment like 'hello there' from the photo[1] doesn't seem to exist in the repo. [0] https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11 [1] https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/apollo-sourc...
    comment by xhrpost · 2016-07-05 · in Don Eyles Walks Us Through the Lunar Module Source Code