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UC Berkeley gives personal information for 150 students and staff to government

https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/uc-berkeley-turns-over-personal-information-of-more-than-150...
55•pabs3•49m ago•5 comments

Meta Ray-Ban Display

https://www.meta.com/blog/meta-ray-ban-display-ai-glasses-connect-2025/
170•martpie•2h ago•222 comments

WASM 3.0 Completed

https://webassembly.org/news/2025-09-17-wasm-3.0/
729•todsacerdoti•9h ago•280 comments

Hypervisor 101 in Rust

https://tandasat.github.io/Hypervisor-101-in-Rust/
35•pykello•2h ago•1 comments

Apple Photos app corrupts images

https://tenderlovemaking.com/2025/09/17/apple-photos-app-corrupts-images/
998•pattyj•16h ago•374 comments

A postmortem of three recent issues

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-recent-issues
208•moatmoat•6h ago•75 comments

Boring is good

https://jenson.org/boring/
79•zdw•2d ago•16 comments

One Token to rule them all – Obtaining Global Admin in every Entra ID tenant

https://dirkjanm.io/obtaining-global-admin-in-every-entra-id-tenant-with-actor-tokens/
67•colinprince•4h ago•6 comments

What's New in C# 14: Null-Conditional Assignments

https://blog.ivankahl.com/csharp-14-null-conditional-assignments/
81•ivankahl•2d ago•56 comments

Optimizing ClickHouse for Intel's 280 core processors

https://clickhouse.com/blog/optimizing-clickhouse-intel-high-core-count-cpu
153•ashvardanian•8h ago•37 comments

YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers

https://9to5google.com/2025/09/16/youtube-lower-view-counts-ad-blockers/
285•iamflimflam1•12h ago•573 comments

Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO

https://www.cgchannel.com/2025/09/ton-roosendaal-to-step-down-as-blender-chairman-and-ceo/
248•cma•10h ago•50 comments

DeepMind and OpenAI win gold at ICPC

https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/146536
182•notemap•9h ago•184 comments

Tinycolor supply chain attack post-mortem

https://sigh.dev/posts/ctrl-tinycolor-post-mortem/
137•STRiDEX•10h ago•52 comments

U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China

https://www.wsj.com/tech/details-emerge-on-u-s-china-tiktok-deal-594e009f
362•Mgtyalx•1d ago•468 comments

Drought in Iraq reveals tombs created 2,300 years ago

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/severe-droughts-in-iraq-reveals-dozens-of-ancient-tombs...
104•pseudolus•10h ago•16 comments

Gluon: a GPU programming language based on the same compiler stack as Triton

https://github.com/triton-lang/triton/blob/main/python/tutorials/gluon/01-intro.py
60•matt_d•7h ago•17 comments

Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it.

https://unscreenshottable.vercel.app/?text=Hello
7•zikero•1h ago•4 comments

Understanding Deflate

https://jjrscott.com/to-deflate-or-not/
41•ingve•3d ago•4 comments

Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000?

154•lucideng•2d ago•200 comments

Grade 2 Braille

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Braille
17•admp•3d ago•5 comments

Launch HN: RunRL (YC X25) – Reinforcement learning as a service

https://runrl.com
52•ag8•11h ago•16 comments

Alibaba's new AI chip: Key specifications comparable to H20

https://news.futunn.com/en/post/62202518/alibaba-s-new-ai-chip-unveiled-key-specifications-compar...
255•dworks•17h ago•269 comments

Slack is extorting us with a $195k/yr bill increase

https://skyfall.dev/posts/slack
352•JustSkyfall•1h ago•182 comments

Tau² benchmark: How a prompt rewrite boosted GPT-5-mini by 22%

https://quesma.com/blog/tau2-benchmark-improving-results-smaller-models/
170•blndrt•14h ago•51 comments

Event Horizon Labs (YC W24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/event-horizon-labs/jobs/U6oyyKZ-founding-engineer-at-event-...
1•ocolegro•10h ago

UUIDv47: Store UUIDv7 in DB, emit UUIDv4 outside (SipHash-masked timestamp)

https://github.com/stateless-me/uuidv47
156•aabbdev•13h ago•69 comments

Infinite Mac: Resource Fork Roundtripping

https://blog.persistent.info/2025/09/infinite-mac-resource-forks.html
37•tobr•1d ago•10 comments

DeepSeek writes less secure code for groups China disfavors?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/16/deepseek-ai-security/
230•otterley•9h ago•143 comments

Determination of the fifth Busy Beaver value

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12337
253•marvinborner•16h ago•106 comments
Open in hackernews

Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning [pdf] (2003)

http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-complexity/ITA-software-travel-complexity.pdf
76•rochoa•5mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•5mo ago
This is well over 20 years old and is based on pre 9/11 flight data. I would suspect that a lot has changed since then. So proceed with no caution at all.
gwern•5mo ago
Since these sorts of things usually only get more and more complex over time, I would guess that it's all still true, but much more so.
throw0101b•5mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•5mo ago
The PDF was produced by ITA, which famously used Common Lisp:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITA_Software

From 2001, a message from the same author as the linked paper:

> (Here's an email Carl de Marcken of ITA Software sent to a friend, describing their experiences using Lisp in one of the software industry's most demanding applications.)

* https://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html

Qem•5mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•5mo ago
> Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?

Airlines and commercial aviation operators schedule their own flights. That is a dynamic schedulle. So, perhaps there is no "comprehensive data set".

However, FlightAware makes publicly available scheduled and completed flight data over many routes in the USA. You can search by route and get a list of flights.

Flight information includes filed departure time, route of flight, and speed. For completed flights actual time, altitude, and route is shown. For example, a search on the route Dallas/Fort Worth to Austin lists 45 flights.

I hope that helps.

foundart•5mo ago
A very interesting dive into, as the title says, the computational complexity of air travel planning. Graph algorithms with lots of complexity added due to the wide variety of fare conditions that airlines have dreamt up over the years.

The article may be from 2003 but I would call it an evergreen. While I imagine some of the details have changed since then, I suspect that the complexity has only grown since then.

foundart•5mo ago
It makes me wonder: Would an airline that drastically simplified its fares be more likely to appear in flight search results?

Simplifying the fares would make it less computationally expensive and, in theory, could take fewer steps to answer a flight planning query.

Imagine a flight search planner that, say, fanned out N airline-specific workers when handling a planning query and then displayed to the user whatever results it got back within some time limit. If FooAir had simple fares, the FooAir searcher would likely run faster than searchers for other airlines. Thus it would be more likely to return results for more queries, assuming the deadline is fairly tight because of usability metrics. (People don't tend to stick around waiting for slow results.)

sjburt•5mo ago
At least a few years ago (~2014), the fare search was actually nearly instant, but all major airfare search sites added a delay because customers had the impression they were getting a better deal when they had to wait. It seems like the delay has been dialed back lately.
teleforce•4mo ago
This is a very popular article that get submitted every now and then (nearly every year) [1].

I think this kind of problem would be a very nice for logic, optimization and constraint programming that probably can be solved with modern tools like Google OR-Tool or Monash University MiniZinc [1],[2],[3].

[1] Past:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Computational%20Complexity%20o...

[2] Logic, Optimization, and Constraint Programming: A Fruitful Collaboration - John Hooker - CMU (2023) [video]:

https://www.youtube.com/live/TknN8fCQvRk

[3] Google OR-Tools:

https://developers.google.com/optimization

[4] MiniZinc:

https://www.minizinc.org/