Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderI find it fascinating and terrifying that on the one hand, these events were "close calls", on the other hand, considering that we can celebrate this event today, they were inevitable. Logically speaking, we always must live in a world where past existential threats to humanity were avoided (including super-volcanoes, asteroids), but that says nothing about the possibility of future existential threats wiping out humanity.
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!
I sometimes wonder what individual decisions are being made now that we'll look back on as important in a few decades. Petrov's role in the incident took 15 years to become publicly-known.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 320
- Total comments
- 39
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-09-29 | Man who saved the world | aundumla | 3 | 0 |
| 2010-06-05 | The Man Who Saved the World: Stanislav Petrov | matth | 9 | 0 |
| 2013-02-17 | Stanislav Petrov | bmaeser | 2 | 0 |
| 2013-08-25 | Stanislav Petrov | HerrMonnezza | 2 | 0 |
| 2013-09-26 | Happy Petrov dayFirst breakout · Best thread | omegant | 138 | 30 |
| 2015-05-22 | Stanislav Petrov | apo | 1 | 0 |
| 2015-10-28 | Stanislav Petrov | gk1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2016-09-26 | Stanislav Petrov | bqe | 1 | 0 |
| 2016-12-25 | Stanislav Petrov | rishabhd | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-12-24 | Stanislav Petrov | onetimemanytime | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-11-24 | Stanislav Petrov | gtirloni | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-09-26 | Happy Petrov Day | keyb0ardninja | 5 | 2 |
| 2022-03-01 | Stanislav Petrov. The man who prevented a nuclear war in 1983 | flavio87 | 7 | 0 |
| 2022-09-26 | Stanislav Petrov | PikelEmi | 7 | 0 |
| 2023-01-14 | Stanislav Petrov | simonebrunozzi | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-09-26 | It's Stanislav Petrov day —40yrs ago he saved world by suppressing a tech glitchLatest 20+ point return | toss1 | 129 | 7 |
| 2025-06-18 | Stanislav Petrov | franczesko | 3 | 0 |