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Software bug that killed 4 people

by alraj on 9/5/24, 5:49 AM with 4 comments

• by rpigab on 9/5/24, 11:51 AM

  Poorly designed checkbox that killed 10 sailors and cost >200 million USD:

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41297563

• by ebcode on 9/5/24, 10:28 AM

  Also see: "Safeware: System Safety and Computers"

  and the work of the author, Nancy Leveson:

  http://sunnyday.mit.edu/

• by smcin on 9/5/24, 6:19 AM

  Yet another article on the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine dose bug scandal from the 1980s. 62 previous posts:

  https://hn.algolia.com/?q=therac-25