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PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock

https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe
265•Qision•1d ago•139 comments

DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22978
68•shenli3514•3h ago•14 comments

Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things

https://github.com/reladraw/reladraw
104•jpwalsh234•4h ago•29 comments

A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward

https://www.movingimagearchive.com/
73•momentmaker•2d ago•17 comments

Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/welcome-to-the-medical-clinic-at-the-interplanetary-re...
16•bucket2015•1h ago•3 comments

Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas

https://tangled.org/yanndegat.tngl.sh/drawgent
83•parasitid•6h ago•29 comments

LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators on Earth

https://basin.la/articles/ninety-feet-a-minute.html
27•big_toast•2d ago•13 comments

Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story

https://lexontech.org/fifteen-years-later-the-apple-cards-origin-story
313•ksec•12h ago•71 comments

The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU

https://jia.je/hardware/2026/09/24/loongson-cpu-erratum-en/
89•jiegec•2d ago•5 comments

Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers

https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal
129•birdculture•2d ago•46 comments

Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

https://swarmtraces.org/
695•specked-citrus•1d ago•438 comments

We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/were-gonna-need-a-lot-more-mathematicians/
342•srcreigh•19h ago•448 comments

ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/asml-says-its-sells-absolutely-nothing-...
89•MC995•1d ago•308 comments

The Rise of Audio AR

https://www.dbreunig.com/2024/04/10/the_rise_of_audio_ar.html
23•dbreunig•2d ago•5 comments

Show HN: Ekselio – Loveable for finance workflows (local first)

https://www.gptbeyond.com/try?home=1
20•kdautaj•1d ago•4 comments

Analyzing Frontier Model Progress with My Favourite Game: Prince of Persia

https://blog.priyan.in/2026/09/analyzing-frontier-model-progress-with.html
47•msephton•1d ago•29 comments

Plan mode is dead

https://www.aymannadeem.com/artificial/intelligence,/developer/tools/2026/09/24/plan-mode-is-dead...
537•jmvldz•1d ago•469 comments

Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free

https://gultsch.de/posts/breaking-up-with-google-play/
606•ezst•11h ago•232 comments

How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-to-keep-enjoying-programming-in-a-world-of-llms/14705
119•signa11•12h ago•176 comments

Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/9/25/japan-moves-to-tighten-rules-for-foreigners-throwing-...
47•mikhael•4h ago•89 comments

Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/09/10/plunging-test-scores-are-a-slow-moving-catastrophe
147•vinni2•6h ago•278 comments

Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models

https://ollaya.dev/
580•Ardakilic•1d ago•139 comments

How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments

https://thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com/p/how-i-changed-teaching-after-ai-managed
96•azhenley•2d ago•99 comments

Reflections on 1,000 Days of Math

https://gmays.com/reflections-on-1000-days-of-math/
74•gmays•3d ago•33 comments

Probing picosecond depairing currents in type-II superconductors

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-026-03469-z
4•PaulHoule•2d ago•1 comments

The Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bizarre-murky-history-of-soviet-born-tetris/
97•EA-3167•1d ago•28 comments

OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw62jje658dlo
89•Betelbuddy•7h ago•118 comments

Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/automattic-has-a-new-board-after-failed-attempt-to-put-ceo-on-l...
107•ilamont•6h ago•122 comments

Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service

https://floci.io
148•theanonymousone•13h ago•29 comments

Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red

https://jev-pokemon.vercel.app/
253•pancomplex•1d ago•109 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/