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GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos

https://noma.security/blog/gitlost-how-we-tricked-githubs-ai-agent-into-leaking-private-repos/
115•ColinEberhardt•3h ago•34 comments

How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)

https://neil.computer/notes/how-to-setup-minimal-zfs-nas-without-truenas/
168•4diii•4h ago•92 comments

Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor

https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/213560
184•miniBill•8h ago•52 comments

Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks

https://www.digipres.org/the-floppy-guide/
58•whiteblossom•5h ago•13 comments

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures (1986)

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-001-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs-spring-2005/v...
152•gjvc•8h ago•14 comments

GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108193
196•Jimmc414•10h ago•94 comments

Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/canada-s-only-watchmaking-school-9.7254211
130•throw0101a•3d ago•62 comments

Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/chat-control-overview
620•gasull•18h ago•216 comments

Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro

https://ariya.io/2026/03/local-cpu-friendly-high-quality-tts-text-to-speech-with-kokoro/
394•speckx•14h ago•77 comments

The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work"

https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/02/canonization/
38•hn_acker•5d ago•22 comments

LineageOS Statistics

https://stats.lineageos.org
69•pentagrama•7h ago•33 comments

30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format

https://30papers.com/
501•notmcrowley•16h ago•75 comments

Herdr: One terminal to rule them all

https://herdr.dev/
267•handfuloflight•6d ago•117 comments

Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

https://davit.app
298•xinit•13h ago•66 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday

https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/2074704958419792299
170•jfrbfbreudh•4h ago•113 comments

Home made GPU escalated quickly [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMR3IXF2sWw
20•erichocean•2d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop

https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat
155•segmenta•16h ago•41 comments

l: A new runtime for k and q

https://lv1.sh/
140•skruger•14h ago•78 comments

Scheme Is a Hoot

https://gracefulliberty.com/notes/scheme-is-a-hoot/
70•signa11•2d ago•8 comments

IEEE Rolls Out Large Language Models Training Course

https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-language-models-ieee-course
69•JeanKage•1w ago•10 comments

Show HN: Chiptune Radio

https://chiptune-radio.alephvoid.com/
47•bootbloopers•7h ago•9 comments

Automate Excel with Python: From manual grind to one-click workflow

https://nostarch.com/automate-excel-with-python
6•teleforce•3d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Neil the Seal Game

https://neiltheseal.app/
54•dalemhurley•2d ago•41 comments

Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-migrants-skilled-workers-integration-labor-market-bureaucracy-langu...
252•theanonymousone•21h ago•636 comments

Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera

https://allaboutcookies.org/eu-mandatory-distracted-driver-system
606•nickslaughter02•11h ago•766 comments

Jim's TrueType QR Code Font

https://github.com/jimparis/qr-font
173•arantius•16h ago•22 comments

We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12

https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2074548242386178258
179•minimaxir•14h ago•182 comments

Out of the Armchair

https://literaryreview.co.uk/out-of-the-armchair
6•Thevet•6d ago•0 comments

Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler

https://pgdog.dev/blog/why-yet-another-connection-pooler
179•levkk•16h ago•42 comments

Notes on Software Quality

https://anthonyhobday.com/blog/20260410
123•speckx•14h ago•52 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/