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Self-hosting my photos with Immich

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-11-29-self-hosting-photos-with-immich/
131•birdculture•5d ago•45 comments

Nook Browser

https://browsewithnook.com
35•ray__•2h ago•24 comments

Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025

https://blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-2025-outage/
596•meetpateltech•14h ago•450 comments

Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

https://haveibeenflocked.com/
54•pkaeding•2h ago•27 comments

Leaving Intel

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog//2025-12-05/leaving-intel.html
160•speckx•8h ago•74 comments

Albert Michelson's Harmonic Analyzer (2014) [pdf]

https://engineerguy.com/fourier/pdfs/albert-michelsons-harmonic-analyzer.pdf
13•o4c•2h ago•2 comments

Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI

https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-3-pro-vision/
400•xnx•13h ago•199 comments

PalmOS on FisherPrice Pixter Toy

https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=27.%20rePalm#pixter
17•dmitrygr•2h ago•2 comments

Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros
1529•meetpateltech•17h ago•1172 comments

Extra Instructions Of The 65XX Series CPU (1996)

http://www.ffd2.com/fridge/docs/6502-NMOS.extra.opcodes
37•embedding-shape•4h ago•5 comments

Ivan Sutherland Sketchpad Demo 1963 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6orsmFndx_o
38•fs_software•3d ago•0 comments

Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps

https://frinkiac.com/
58•GlumWoodpecker•3d ago•21 comments

Most technical problems are people problems

https://blog.joeschrag.com/2023/11/most-technical-problems-are-really.html
364•mooreds•16h ago•266 comments

Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox

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103•PaulHoule•7h ago•49 comments

YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries

https://www.ynetnews.com/tech-and-digital/article/bj1qbwcklg
192•mystraline•4h ago•114 comments

Perpetual futures, explained

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/perpetual-futures-explained/
82•sirodoht•8h ago•32 comments

Idempotency keys for exactly-once processing

https://www.morling.dev/blog/on-idempotency-keys/
106•defly•4d ago•41 comments

Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust

https://corrode.dev/blog/defensive-programming/
235•PaulHoule•13h ago•47 comments

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

180•proberts•13h ago•228 comments

Guide to making a CHIP-8 emulator (2020)

https://tobiasvl.github.io/blog/write-a-chip-8-emulator/
6•AlexeyBrin•6d ago•0 comments

Fizz Buzz in CSS

https://susam.net/fizz-buzz-in-css.html
78•froober•9h ago•20 comments

Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond

https://netflixtechblog.com/av1-now-powering-30-of-netflix-streaming-02f592242d80
490•CharlesW•1d ago•256 comments

Show HN: HCB Mobile – financial app built by 17 y/o, processing $6M/month

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126•mohamad08•3d ago•51 comments

Tides are weirder than you think

https://signoregalilei.com/2025/11/12/tides-are-weirder-than-you-think/
91•surprisetalk•4d ago•25 comments

The missing standard library for multithreading in JavaScript

https://github.com/W4G1/multithreading
54•W4G1•8h ago•15 comments

Making RSS More Fun

https://matduggan.com/making-rss-more-fun/
193•salmon•16h ago•94 comments

Frank Gehry has died

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y2p22z9gno
152•ksajadi•8h ago•55 comments

Onlook (YC W25) the Cursor for Designers Is Hiring a Founding Fullstack Engineer

1•D_R_Farrell•12h ago

Sam Altman’s DRAM Deal

https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal
210•pabs3•5h ago•177 comments

How fast can browsers process base64 data?

https://lemire.me/blog/2025/11/29/how-fast-can-browsers-process-base64-data/
33•mfiguiere•6d ago•20 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•7mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•7mo 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•7mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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/