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Vulnerability reports are not special anymore

https://words.filippo.io/vuln-reports/
231•goranmoomin•8h ago•123 comments

Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

https://gitlab.com/baiyibai/pico-usb-wifi
88•byb•4h ago•24 comments

Jerry's Map

http://www.jerrysmap.com/the-map
447•turtleyacht•13h ago•51 comments

Show HN: An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine

https://glyphcss.com
82•apresmoi•3d ago•25 comments

FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model

https://swipe.futo.tech/
493•futohq•14h ago•150 comments

In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260622-00/?p=112451
338•saikatsg•13h ago•44 comments

Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24597
71•ilreb•5h ago•16 comments

Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring EMEA Engineers Who Can Design

https://www.ashbyhq.com/careers?ashby_jid=87b96eef-edc1-4de4-adb6-d460126d02f8&utm_source=hn
1•abhikp•49m ago

"Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds

https://gist.github.com/retroplasma/ec21767d0a8380c7ea9c2fbee1c7d6bf
66•retroplasma•5h ago•25 comments

Remaking BBC test cards to teach you video processing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_6HxPkrgcg
20•unleaded•2d ago•0 comments

Printing Gaussian Splats

https://www.patreon.com/DanyBittel/posts/printing-splats-161333338
273•ilnmtlbnm•2d ago•30 comments

Rhombus Language 1.0

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/06/rhombus-v1.0.html
146•Decabytes•1d ago•32 comments

A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison

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155•mauvehaus•1d ago•88 comments

Swift Package Index joins Apple

https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/swift-package-index-joins-apple
200•JDevlieghere•13h ago•66 comments

Usbliter8: an A12/A13 SecureROM Exploit

https://ps.tc/pages/blog-usbliter8.html
134•givinguflac•5d ago•27 comments

Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX

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379•DominikPeters•17h ago•71 comments

DiffusionBench: Towards Holistic Evaluation of Generative Diffusion Transformers

https://github.com/End2End-Diffusion/diffusion-bench
31•ilreb•5h ago•0 comments

The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated

https://dynomight.net/vitamin-d/
281•surprisetalk•15h ago•190 comments

Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza, UN finds

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/23/israel-deliberately-targeting-gaza-children-to-comm...
13•hebelehubele•14m ago•0 comments

Lithp.py (~2008)

https://fogus.me/fun/lithp/
14•wglb•2d ago•3 comments

Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-pauses-employee-tracking-program-following-internal-security-bre...
214•1vuio0pswjnm7•7h ago•136 comments

The Teensy Executable Revisited

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31•ankitg12•5h ago•3 comments

Dirty Little Zine – a tool for making an 8 page printable Zine

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111•cianmm•3d ago•13 comments

Show HN: Graphical SQL Builder and Debugger

https://github.com/webofmarius/SQLJoiner
4•matei88•1d ago•0 comments

Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite

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139•Jimmc414•3d ago•40 comments

Hunting Million-Digit Primes from My Loft

https://primecrunch.com/blog/2/hunting-million-digit-primes-from-my-loft
23•andyhedges•2d ago•2 comments

Inventing the Future, One Lisp Machine at a Time

https://www.patrickdomanico.com/bpm/2026/06/16/inventing-the-future-one-lisp-machine-at-a-time/
96•pamoroso•1d ago•11 comments

Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI

https://twitter.com/JPoehnelt/status/2069482265953087602
472•justinwp•13h ago•288 comments

F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/ffs
59•neogoose•2d ago•38 comments

The Low-Tech AI of Elden Ring

https://nega.tv/posts/low-tech-ai-of-elden-ring.html
139•g0xA52A2A•20h ago•70 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•1y ago

Comments

buildsjets•1y 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•1y 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•1y ago
(2003)
throw0101b•1y 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•1y ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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/