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PHP2Shell: Exploitation Attempts and Remediation Trends

https://www.wiz.io/blog/php2shell-exploitation-so-far
64•acossta•59m ago•16 comments

Python's experimental JIT to be removed

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1102102/0c00e4d550f25f8c/
181•f311a•3h ago•90 comments

Giving chat feedback gives Anthropic your data

https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/7996868-is-my-data-used-for-model-training
49•jonpizza•55m ago•17 comments

Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content

https://spectrum.ieee.org/wikipedia-wikiproject-ai-writing-cleanup
166•rbanffy•3h ago•76 comments

AI promised less work. I've never worked more

https://oioannou.com/blog/ai-promised-less-work/
335•oorestisime•3h ago•301 comments

New iMac with M6

https://www.apple.com/imac/
68•notfried•1h ago•46 comments

Here Be Monsters: What Do You Still Need to Know When Agents Do the Work?

https://blog.adrq.dev/here-be-monsters-what-do-you-still-need-to-know-when-agents-do-the-work
31•adrq•1h ago•10 comments

Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible

https://www.bitlog.com/2026/10/27/software-may-be-getting-worse-but-it-used-to-be-horrible/
171•jakevoytko•3h ago•128 comments

Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics

https://openai.com/index/building-scientific-understanding-with-academic-communities/
1036•jonluca•17h ago•574 comments

The US Government Is Hiding Secret Court Ruling About How It Spies on Americans

https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-is-hiding-a-secret-court-ruling-about-how-it-spies-...
52•helterskelter2•44m ago•2 comments

The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI

https://j11g.com/the-mythical-man-month-in-the-age-of-ai
304•ilreb•8h ago•196 comments

Gforth 1.0

https://gforth.org/manual/1.0/NEWS.html
81•joshcsimmons•4h ago•5 comments

Why Micron Is Suddenly Ditching 4F² DRAM as Rivals Double Down

https://hothardware.com/news/why-micron-is-suddenly-ditching-4f-dram
9•rbanffy•23h ago•1 comments

The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]

https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/The-Exponential-Time-Hypothesis-is-False-Octob...
714•vok•16h ago•257 comments

Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking

https://open3dlab.com/news/roblox-downloaded-145-gb-of-models-from-our-sites/
359•choult•4h ago•215 comments

Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/building-reasoning-models
781•sgiannopoulos•23h ago•105 comments

188-Year-Old Mystery of Photography's First Human Subjects Solved

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/daguerre-photograph-subjects-location-2826596
22•bookofjoe•3d ago•5 comments

Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11

https://blog.enlyth.com/posts/oldest-windows-gui-app-win-11/
491•enlyth•20h ago•288 comments

Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261023-how-solar-became-bigger-than-nuclear
453•geox•23h ago•636 comments

Alleged Israeli spy company targeted Starlink users

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/alleged-israeli-spy-company-heavily-targeted-starl...
36•mmaia•1h ago•3 comments

I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0

https://eliasfarhan.ch/graphics/cpp/2026/01/27/why-i-teach-opengles.html
108•majorchord•12h ago•70 comments

Kauldron: Modular, scalable library to train ML models

https://github.com/google-research/kauldron
14•nateb2022•1d ago•2 comments

CSS-Tricks has a new owner

https://css-tricks.com/css-tricks-has-a-new-owner/
525•edent•23h ago•109 comments

Type Server Protocol

https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/blob/main/docs/tsp/type-server-protocol.md
258•adamnemecek•20h ago•172 comments

Writing about pratt parsing so I remember it

https://www.unix.dog/~yosh/blog/2026-10-25_pratt-parsing.html
68•dverlaeckt80•8h ago•6 comments

How to grow a cacao tree at home (2024)

https://www.cocoterra.com/guide-on-how-to-grow-chocolate-at-home/
121•felipevb•1d ago•37 comments

A Printer Printing onto Paper

https://twitter.com/macrofying/status/2112904628509528219
171•MrBuddyCasino•4d ago•41 comments

I will no longer upload to NEW

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/10/msg00263.html
204•edward•4h ago•110 comments

Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model (155 responses)

https://blog.cloudflare.com/kv-cache-exposure-remediation/
160•wondersky•16h ago•60 comments

New iPad mini

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-gives-ipad-mini-its-biggest-update-ever/
254•soheilpro•1d ago•572 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/