It's Stanislav Petrov day —40yrs ago he saved world by suppressing a tech glitch

[toss1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

[gladiatr72]

I'll put it on my calendar! With all there is to elicit dismay, it is a welcome breath to commemorate that on that day, we did not get hit by a bus!

[travisporter]

Loving this geocities-style tribute to petrov (found on wiki). https://www.brightstarsound.com/index.html

[dp-hackernews]

Crimson Tide is a 1995 American action thriller film directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. It takes place during a period of political turmoil in Russia, in which ultranationalists threaten to launch nuclear missiles at the United States and Japan.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_Tide_(film)

[MetaMonk]

What's with all the posts lately that have edited titles for submissions

[great_psy]

40 years is not that long ago. Have we really learned anything ?

[lnxg33k1]

Imagine the dev after the apocalypse, “it worked on my pc”

Kudos to Petrov btw

[drt5b7j]

I recently learned that there was another even closer call than Stanislav Petrov

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov