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US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-faa-says-it-will-phase-out-floppy-disks-air-traffic-control-b...
150•ChrisArchitect•15h ago•130 comments

Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tesla-wind-cybertruck-production-years-poor-sales-markets-...
548•PLenz•7h ago•1246 comments

First steps in bare-metal programming using UEFI

https://kevinboone.me/efitest_index.html
102•LaSombra•2h ago•7 comments

We know 15k websites are infected. how do we tell them?

https://scotthelme.co.uk/we-know-15-579-websites-are-infected-how-do-we-tell-them/
64•speckx•1h ago•42 comments

Perplexity launches AI agents for work

https://www.perplexity.ai/en-GB/hub/blog/teammates-are-agents-for-complex-ongoing-work
41•cybermango•1h ago•33 comments

Rune: A native GPU-rendered Rust UI framework for macOS, Windows, Linux and web

https://github.com/anomalyco/rune
92•mik3y•3h ago•67 comments

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemini-omni-1-2-flash/
244•thisisauserid•6h ago•189 comments

Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI

https://github.com/ppmpreetham/BUI
594•ppmpreetham•12h ago•242 comments

Size-It-Up (Game)

https://magnitudle.com/size-it-up
30•whoishiding•1h ago•12 comments

Memorilla: Latent Semantic Memory for LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.21375
28•handfuloflight•1h ago•1 comments

UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDR's to sell AI compliance software

https://up.codes/careers?utm_source=HN
1•Old_Thrashbarg•2h ago

My first and last telegram was from Rebecca West

https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/rebecca-wests-nightingale
6•bryanrasmussen•16m ago•0 comments

Deus Ex

https://www.filfre.net/2026/11/deus-ex/
262•cybersoyuz•4h ago•132 comments

Devvm.dev: One VM for every project

https://devvm.dev/
28•luispa•2h ago•16 comments

40C3 halfnarp – Submit talk preferences to aid scheduling

https://halfnarp.events.ccc.de
12•hanemile•1h ago•1 comments

Firecracker VM Escape: PwnEscape Part 2

https://pwn.ai/blog/firecracker-escape
5•SerCe•12m ago•0 comments

PyLings: Solve Exercises and Learn Python

https://github.com/thesayfulla/pylings
18•thesayfulla•2h ago•1 comments

Zero Hour: Telling time was a matter of survival and strategy during WWI (2014)

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/zero-hour
77•NaOH•1d ago•2 comments

Restaurant Delivery Payment-Skimming Campaign

https://www.infohawk.com/news/2026-11-05-scamwich-restaurant-skimming
4•fiej•26m ago•0 comments

Lippitt-Knoster in Practice (Field Notes for Managing Complex Projects)

https://sharedphysics.com/lippitt-knoster-in-practice-field-notes-for-managing-complex-projects/
44•goopthink•4h ago•1 comments

MTG-I2 First Images

https://www.eumetsat.int/mtg-i2-first-images
52•N19PEDL2•5h ago•8 comments

Flawless UI-UX Skill 1.0.0

https://github.com/smokeeaasd/flawless-ui-ux/releases/tag/v1.0.0
14•99lcccss•1h ago•18 comments

Kalshi court losses pile up as judges refuse to block state gambling laws

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/11/kalshi-court-losses-pile-up-as-judges-refuse-to-block...
68•Analemma_•1h ago•55 comments

Democrats launching congressional investigations into SpaceXAI, META and Apple

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/11/06/after-courting-trump-corporate-america-faces...
15•pretext•21m ago•1 comments

Living beyond the limits of survival: wood ants trapped in a gigantic pitfall (2016)

https://jhr.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=9096
143•hitekker•9h ago•46 comments

Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-06/anthropic-ipo-valuation-expectations-pressured...
73•dgellow•2h ago•179 comments

Replit rebuilt its sandbox engine with microVMs

https://frontier.replit.com/sandbox-engine-microvms-part-1/
3•gaplong•40m ago•0 comments

Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, including GrapheneOS

https://github.com/PrivSec-dev/banking-apps-compat-report/issues/105
584•microtonal•10h ago•373 comments

Scriptable GeoDNS: Leaving AWS for Bunny

https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-bunny-geodns
41•sshah03•3h ago•14 comments

Microsoft is winding down Oracle deal to rent AI cloud capacity

https://www.reuters.com/business/microsoft-is-winding-down-oracle-deal-rent-ai-cloud-capacity-blo...
46•brazukadev•1h ago•12 comments
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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/