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DeepSeek v4

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/
793•impact_sy•5h ago•457 comments

Composition Shouldn't be this Hard

https://www.cambra.dev/blog/announcement/
26•larelli•58m ago•14 comments

Why I Write (1946)

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/why-i-write/
151•RyanShook•5h ago•29 comments

An update on recent Claude Code quality reports

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem
717•mfiguiere•14h ago•531 comments

GPT-5.5

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/
1342•rd•14h ago•884 comments

Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign

https://socket.dev/blog/bitwarden-cli-compromised
744•tosh•18h ago•364 comments

US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/politics/us-special-forces-soldier-arrested-maduro-raid-trade
206•nkrisc•10h ago•249 comments

Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71264-8
133•scubakid•4h ago•65 comments

MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code

https://blog.meshcore.io/2026/04/23/the-split
210•wielebny•15h ago•111 comments

Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-23/meta-tells-staff-it-will-cut-10-of-jobs-in-pus...
582•Vaslo•13h ago•558 comments

Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases

https://github.com/refactoringhq/tolaria
186•lucaronin•10h ago•69 comments

Familiarity is the enemy: On why Enterprise systems have failed for 60 years

https://felixbarbalet.com/familiarity-is-the-enemy/
32•adityaathalye•3h ago•13 comments

Why Not Venus?

https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/why-not-venus
16•zdw•3h ago•2 comments

Using the internet like it's 1999

https://joshblais.com/blog/using-the-internet-like-its-1999/
152•joshuablais•12h ago•96 comments

TorchTPU: Running PyTorch Natively on TPUs at Google Scale

https://developers.googleblog.com/torchtpu-running-pytorch-natively-on-tpus-at-google-scale/
128•mji•11h ago•6 comments

Ubuntu 26.04

https://lwn.net/Articles/1069399/
175•lxst•3h ago•91 comments

Show HN: How LLMs Work – Interactive visual guide based on Karpathy's lecture

https://ynarwal.github.io/how-llms-work/
9•ynarwal__•1h ago•1 comments

UK Biobank health data keeps ending up on GitHub

https://biobank.rocher.lc
118•Cynddl•18h ago•29 comments

My phone replaced a brass plug

https://drobinin.com/posts/my-phone-replaced-a-brass-plug/
127•valzevul•15h ago•25 comments

Show HN: Agent Vault – Open-source credential proxy and vault for agents

https://github.com/Infisical/agent-vault
105•dangtony98•1d ago•35 comments

Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go

https://github.com/NV404/gova
10•aliezsid•2h ago•0 comments

A programmable watch you can actually wear

https://www.hackster.io/news/a-diy-watch-you-can-actually-wear-8f91c2dac682
180•sarusso•2d ago•83 comments

Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite

https://github.com/russellromney/honker
256•russellthehippo•20h ago•62 comments

Astronomers find the edge of the Milky Way

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/astronomers-find-the-edge-of-the-milky-way/
117•bookofjoe•14h ago•25 comments

Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price

https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/
2185•Kaibeezy•1d ago•744 comments

Incident with multple GitHub services

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/myrbk7jvvs6p
242•bwannasek•15h ago•117 comments

Used La Marzocco machines are coveted by cafe owners and collectors

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/dining/la-marzocco-espresso-machine.html
66•mitchbob•3d ago•113 comments

Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025)

https://ar-ms.me/thoughts/c-compiler-1-zig/
159•tosh•23h ago•44 comments

I am building a cloud

https://crawshaw.io/blog/building-a-cloud
1054•bumbledraven•1d ago•530 comments

French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/french-govt-agency-confirms-breach-as-hacker-offer...
381•robtherobber•16h ago•137 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/