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ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State

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208•alberto-m•2h ago•146 comments

Coding Agents Could Make Free Software Matter Again

https://www.gjlondon.com/blog/ai-agents-could-make-free-software-matter-again/
19•rogueleaderr•22m ago•8 comments

The Cognitive Dark Forest

https://ryelang.org/blog/posts/cognitive-dark-forest/
149•kaycebasques•3h ago•75 comments

Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

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336•speckx•6h ago•143 comments

Midnight train from GA: A view of America from the tracks as airports struggle

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49•walterbell•2h ago•37 comments

Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout

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157•emersonmacro•1d ago•19 comments

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134•pjmlp•4h ago•104 comments

Ohm's Peg-to-WASM Compiler

https://ohmjs.org/blog/2026/03/12/peg-to-wasm
20•azhenley•2d ago•3 comments

Show HN: Crazierl – An Erlang Operating System

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21•toast0•2h ago•6 comments

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100•thebeardisred•3d ago•23 comments

The road signs that teach travellers about France

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19•1659447091•2h ago•1 comments

Neovim 0.12.0

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248•pawelgrzybek•5h ago•106 comments

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36•velmu•3h ago•4 comments

Creating West Coast Buddhism (2024)

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37•surprisetalk•3d ago•14 comments

The rise and fall of IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history

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56•zdw•6h ago•19 comments

AyaFlow: A high-performance, eBPF-based network traffic analyzer written in Rust

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69•tanelpoder•7h ago•4 comments

Kyushu Railway Company Train Varieties

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32•NaOH•3h ago•1 comments

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60•dannote•1d ago•9 comments

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20•alonsovm•4h ago•19 comments

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36•coloneltcb•2d ago•12 comments

The Epistemology of Microphysics

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35•danielam•4d ago•20 comments

LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

548•hrncode•13h ago•327 comments

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481•giuliomagnifico•12h ago•213 comments

Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit

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267•LucidLynx•12h ago•199 comments

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40•nixass•2h ago•9 comments

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304•ourmandave•8h ago•118 comments

A nearly perfect USB cable tester

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259•birdculture•3d ago•140 comments

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200•onei•6h ago•66 comments

'Project Hail Mary' Crosses $300M in Sales to Become Amazon/MGM's Highest-Gross

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10•gnabgib•20m ago•2 comments

My MacBook Keyboard Is Broken and It's Insanely Expensive to Fix

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104•TobiasBerg•3h ago•108 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•11mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•11mo 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•11mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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/