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Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s

2243•section33•18h ago•238 comments

Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight

https://github.com/hgaiser/moonshine
161•wertyk•8h ago•71 comments

LoRA Speedrun – a public wall-clock leaderboard for fine-tuning techniques

https://github.com/Saivineeth147/lora-speedrun
68•Vineeth147•4h ago•7 comments

Xiaomi-Robotics-1

https://robotics.xiaomi.com/xiaomi-robotics-1.html
180•ilreb•4h ago•119 comments

Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt

https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/07/sealed-tomb-of-a-high-official-or-priest-filled-with-pa...
27•isaacfrond•5d ago•17 comments

Self-Powered Trailers Promise Leaner Freight Runs

https://spectrum.ieee.org/self-powered-trailers-freight-decarbonization
33•rbanffy•1w ago•15 comments

1-Bit LLM in the Browser

https://huggingface.co/spaces/webml-community/bonsai-webgpu
30•simonebrunozzi•3d ago•7 comments

Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/19/claude-code-in-bun-in-rust/
508•tosh•22h ago•673 comments

Orion Browser by Kagi

https://orionbrowser.com/
191•sebjones•13h ago•131 comments

What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard

https://chipweinberger.com/articles/20260719-hardware-is-not-so-hard
485•chipweinberger•22h ago•219 comments

Eliminating Go bounds checks with unsafe

https://blog.andr2i.com/posts/2026-07-06-eliminating-go-bound-checks-with-unsafe
4•abnercoimbre•5d ago•0 comments

The Zen of Parallel Programming

https://smolnero.com/posts/the-zen-of-parallel-programming
156•edgar_ortega•5d ago•19 comments

Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-3-snapshot-4
309•ObviouslyFlamer•21h ago•202 comments

How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/17/microsofts-main-tool-for-lock-in/
76•cube00•4h ago•40 comments

EU Exempts Apple Watch and AirPods from Battery Removal Requirements

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15•miohtama•1h ago•24 comments

Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg8edqq5g5o
155•teleforce•19h ago•115 comments

HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router

https://justsomebody.dev/blog/mikrotik-home-router
114•rafal_opilowski•14h ago•95 comments

Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture

https://xcancel.com/__alpoge__/status/2079028340955197566
371•loubbrad•6h ago•212 comments

Qwen 3.8

https://twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2078759124914098291
874•nh43215rgb•1d ago•600 comments

11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies' Archive of Americana Architecture

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60•gslin•4d ago•2 comments

Biggest Probabilistic Computer Turns Noise into Answers

https://spectrum.ieee.org/biggest-probabilistic-computer
71•rbanffy•11h ago•12 comments

Who Is America's Homer?

https://www.plough.com/articles/who-is-americas-homer
73•samclemens•5d ago•170 comments

I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

https://en.andros.dev/blog/0b8e451e/i-joined-the-indieweb-heres-what-i-learned/
199•andros•21h ago•100 comments

Korg PS-3300 is back

https://www.korg.co.uk/blogs/updates/ps3300
49•Lio•5d ago•47 comments

I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens

https://quesma.com/blog/custom-deep-research-pipeline/
131•bkotrys•20h ago•166 comments

HMD Touch 4G

https://www.hmd.com/en_int/hmd-touch-4g
74•thisislife2•15h ago•75 comments

Talk: The Art of Braiding Algorithms

https://pgadey.ca/notes/talk-relatorium-2026/
40•surprisetalk•4d ago•0 comments

C64 Basic Dungeon Crawler: Goblin Attack (C64 Basic Part 8)

https://retrogamecoders.com/c64-basic-dungeon-part8/
71•ibobev•17h ago•6 comments

Dupes took over the world

https://www.vox.com/podcasts/493930/dupe-culture-fender-ugg-quince-tiktok-amazon-online-shopping
91•gumby•5d ago•86 comments

A new Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator that boots Windows

https://raymii.org/s/blog/Intel_Itanium_IA-64-Emulator_that_boots_Windows.html
77•jandeboevrie•12h ago•67 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/