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GPU World

https://www.gpuworld.org/
206•simonpure•5h ago•89 comments

Fastpotify

https://fastpotify.rocks/
350•nreece•6h ago•172 comments

Tmp.0ut Volume 5

https://tmpout.sh/5/
48•ghuntley•9h ago•18 comments

Restroom Archive

https://restroomarchive.com
112•jcalx•5h ago•34 comments

I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system

https://jasontucker.blog/how-i-turned-my-security-cameras-into-an-automatic-bird-identification-s...
493•speckx•16h ago•118 comments

Playa Phone

https://playaphone.com/
616•cutoff•18h ago•209 comments

A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YtygAx_C6A
325•keithcarolus•14h ago•38 comments

Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOMx2BHHWtE
412•matthewsinclair•1d ago•59 comments

Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/dwarf-fortress-is-getting-the-mother-of-all-magic-updates-extend...
406•Tomte•4d ago•167 comments

CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/collectwise/jobs/7U500pP-founding-customer-success-engineer
1•OBrien_1107•2h ago

RotaryCell: Making an unmodified rotary phone work over LTE with an ESP32-S3

https://github.com/fregacmols/RotaryCell
57•jombib•6h ago•8 comments

Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination

https://datacolada.org/138
227•Anon84•9h ago•156 comments

Borges Labyrinth in Venice reopens to the public

https://www.wallpaper.com/design-interiors/labirinto-borges-venice-reopening
68•gone35•3d ago•26 comments

Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/30/apple-unexpected-mac-mini-and-studio-demand/
400•thm•20h ago•448 comments

Show HN: Laser Graffiti

https://laser.consti.de
190•con•2d ago•39 comments

Flat vs. segmented memory – it's recursive

https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/blog/2026/08/25/#flat-vs-segmented
21•signa11•5d ago•0 comments

I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked

https://signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-someone-hacked-the-commissary
338•jcurbo•21h ago•195 comments

Roget's Thesaurus

https://artflsrv04.uchicago.edu/roget-thesaurus/
13•gregsadetsky•1d ago•1 comments

Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones

https://www.wsj.com/tech/gps-jammers-dead-zones-e76f3261
136•vinnyglennon•1d ago•132 comments

2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up

https://jkm.dev/posts/how-2004-runescape-fit-a-multiplayer-rpg-into-56k-dialup/
109•fagnerbrack•8h ago•57 comments

DoltLite: A SQLite fork with Git-style version control, built with 2k agent PRs

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2026-08-31-doltlite-beta/
38•lbw1215•7h ago•25 comments

Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI

https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2026/08/30/SBFXUIJQYZEARKP5T4FBAY25HQ/
208•geox•2d ago•60 comments

Lion-man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-man
106•gurjeet•2d ago•54 comments

Reverse engineering my ADHD test

https://nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-adhd-test
215•hazebooth•4d ago•126 comments

RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source

https://ravynos.com/
198•Bluestein•16h ago•114 comments

Interactive pattern discovery in binaries (FF-16-TUI)

https://github.com/HexLasso/FF-16-TUI
32•HexLasso•3d ago•3 comments

Vermell – Minimal, dependency-free C++ web framework using epoll

https://github.com/vermellcc/vermell
19•standar-donkey•4h ago•9 comments

ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference

https://codex-tool-reference.simonw.chatgpt.site/
215•ijidak•18h ago•52 comments

Run macOS Software on Linux

https://www.darlinghq.org/
226•Bluestein•10h ago•70 comments

Polishing Cloth Updated

https://512pixels.net/2026/08/polishing-cloth-updated/
9•zdw•6d ago•4 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/