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Ten days later, Git on macOS still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates

https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/apple.html
39•galadran•1h ago•10 comments

Start Doing Graph Theory

https://vertex.degree/
154•ibobev•4d ago•15 comments

Git for the US Code

https://lexifina.com/blog/git-for-the-us-code
300•alansaber•10h ago•145 comments

Genie 4

https://deepmind.google/blog/genie-4-a-new-generation-of-world-simulation/
920•acossta•19h ago•532 comments

Ghostty 1.4

https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-4-0
1084•deaux•19h ago•343 comments

Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/meet-the-2026-winner-of-nikons-small-world-photomicrograp...
270•_Microft•2d ago•43 comments

MacOS Extensions Pack for the Apple Network Server v1.0

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/10/macos-extensions-pack-for-apple-network.html
65•classichasclass•3d ago•0 comments

Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer

https://www.brangus.io/survival-llm
384•Luc•16h ago•148 comments

Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update

https://tailscale.com/ssh-investigation-update
302•figmert•16h ago•162 comments

Decompiling Fast Food Tycoon 2: Drawing the World

https://healeycodes.com/decompiling-fast-food-tycoon-2-drawing-the-world
78•healeycodes•3d ago•15 comments

Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude

https://www.anthropic.com/research/early-progress-drug-development
242•dataking•15h ago•239 comments

Amazon to buy satellite firm Globalstar in $11.57B deal

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/amazon-signs-1157-billion-deal-satellite-firm-glob...
6•noptd•10m ago•1 comments

Barcelona unrest: how to fabricate a protest in the age of TikTok

https://theconversation.com/barcelona-unrest-how-to-fabricate-a-protest-in-the-age-of-tiktok-295263
37•DeepLogin•1h ago•34 comments

Python's experimental JIT to be removed

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1102102/0c00e4d550f25f8c/
527•f311a•1d ago•284 comments

Raspberry Pi Zero 3W and Pi 4 Model A spotted in device trees

https://bret.dk/raspberry-pi-zero-3-w-pi-4-model-a/
175•sthlmb•15h ago•102 comments

New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6

https://www.apple.com/in/newsroom/2026/10/apple-introduces-the-new-14-inch-macbook-pro-with-m6/
377•beex•19h ago•518 comments

Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware threatens most servers on planet Earth

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/code-execution-flaw-in-uefi-firmware-threatens-most-serv...
170•DamnInteresting•15h ago•98 comments

SS United States to be sunk as largest artificial reef

https://divemagazine.com/scuba-diving-news/ss-united-states-to-be-sunk-as-worlds-largest-artifici...
157•geox•2d ago•128 comments

New iMac with M6

https://www.apple.com/imac/
343•notfried•23h ago•431 comments

Jokes for the ZX81

https://spelk.press/gb/products/81-jokes-for-the-zx81
104•robin_reala•1d ago•12 comments

Classification of Finite Simple Groups Formalized in Lean

https://cfsg.axiommath.ai/
216•pfdietz•19h ago•67 comments

Closing the Sea: Lessons from Ancient Mediterranean Blockades

https://maritime-executive.com/editorials/closing-the-sea-lessons-from-ancient-mediterranean-bloc...
17•gumby•2d ago•0 comments

The Colors of a Soap Film

https://aseemrb.me/blog/colors-of-a-soap-film/
3•gregsadetsky•4d ago•0 comments

An examination of lost firefly species of the US and Canada

https://journaloflostspecies.org/index.php/jls/article/view/37/33
131•bryanrasmussen•3d ago•49 comments

A Love Letter to the Super Dimension Fortress

https://brennan.day/a-love-letter-to-the-super-dimension-fortress/
65•jruohonen•4d ago•10 comments

Four Months of Zig

https://gracefulliberty.com/articles/four-months-of-zig/
142•ibobev•15h ago•94 comments

Moxnox 1.0: NT-Like, POSIX-Compatible OS Running Atop Btrfs

https://github.com/maharmstone/moxnox
79•SockThief•12h ago•18 comments

US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans

https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-is-hiding-a-secret-court-ruling-about-how-it-spies-...
967•helterskelter2•21h ago•368 comments

About the compromised eMudhra intermediate CAs

https://support.apple.com/en-us/149555
12•birdculture•55m ago•0 comments

Assembly Nights (2021)

https://ratfactor.com/assembly-nights
58•andsoitis•2d ago•12 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/