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Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs

https://epoch.ai/data-insights/ai-chip-component-cost-shares
79•intelkishan•1h ago•79 comments

DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost

https://esengine.github.io/DeepSeek-Reasonix/
202•Alifatisk•5h ago•108 comments

Ruby for Good

https://ti.to/codeforgood/rubyforgood
51•mooreds•2h ago•17 comments

Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06445
86•wek•5h ago•44 comments

Mastering Dyalog APL

https://mastering.dyalog.com/README.html
89•tosh•6h ago•18 comments

I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph

https://www.dougmacdowell.com/50-hours-to-draw-some-lines.html
305•dougdude3339•3d ago•59 comments

Usborne 1980s Computer Books

https://usborne.com/us/books/computer-and-coding-books
95•ngram•2h ago•29 comments

Childhood Computing

https://susam.net/childhood-computing.html
112•blenderob•6h ago•57 comments

Flick (YC F25) Is Hiring Front End Engineer to Build Figma for AI Filmmaking

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flick/jobs/Tdu6FH6-senior-frontend-engineer
1•rayruiwang•1h ago

'AI washing': firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/24/ai-washing-pr-firms-scrambling-rebrand
94•Brajeshwar•2h ago•67 comments

I keep bouncing off the Scheme language

https://www.sicpers.info/2026/05/i-keep-bouncing-off-the-scheme-language/
86•ingve•2d ago•32 comments

Noroboto: Lying Fonts and Mitigation in Rust

https://tritium.legal/blog/noroboto
13•piker•2d ago•0 comments

Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/microsoft-open-sources-the-earliest-dos-source-code-disco...
377•DamnInteresting•16h ago•123 comments

FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD on Laptop

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-On-Laptop-Driver
38•Bender•1h ago•33 comments

Perceptual Image Codec: What Matters in Practical Learned Image Compression

https://apple.github.io/ml-pico/
49•ksec•6h ago•18 comments

Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox

https://www.firefox.com/en-US/landing/adafruit/
27•mch82•2d ago•5 comments

Curly braces: An evolution of Unix and C

https://thalia.dev/blog/unix-braces/
26•thaliaarchi•4d ago•5 comments

Wake up! 16b

https://hellmood.111mb.de/wake_up_16b_writeup.html
367•MaximilianEmel•17h ago•25 comments

Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/scammers-are-abusing-an-internal-microsoft-account-to-send-spam/
227•spike021•17h ago•129 comments

Swap tables, flash-friendly swap, swap_ops, and more

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60•mkesper•4d ago•1 comments

Silk: Open-source cooperative fiber scheduler

https://github.com/ClickHouse/silk
91•animetyan•4d ago•13 comments

The C64 Dead Test Font

https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2026/c64-dead-test-font
111•masswerk•14h ago•19 comments

Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-alexander-grothendieck-revolutionized-20th-century-mathematics...
115•anujbans•14h ago•23 comments

Predicting the 2026 Bristol Bay and Kodiak Salmon Runs

https://www.salmonfinder.com/2026/05/13/bristol-bay-kodiak-predictions-2026
8•mooreds•2d ago•4 comments

Time to talk about my writerdeck

https://veronicaexplains.net/my-first-writerdeck/
432•hggh•23h ago•266 comments

On The <dl> (2021)

https://benmyers.dev/blog/on-the-dl/
423•ravenical•1d ago•124 comments

Converting an Integer to a Decimal String in Under Two Nanoseconds

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.70079
94•mpweiher•5d ago•50 comments

DeepSeek to Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-23/deepseek-to-make-permanent-75-discount-on-flag...
106•moh_maya•4h ago•103 comments

Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/artificial-egg-colossal-chickens-moa-dodo
59•BaudouinVH•3d ago•84 comments

$100 CPU Shootout: Comparing the Ryzen 5 5500, Core i3-14100F, & Core i3-12100F

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/100-budget-cpu-shootout-ddr4
3•bushwart•11m ago•0 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/