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Hashcards: A Plain-Text Spaced Repetition System

https://borretti.me/article/hashcards-plain-text-spaced-repetition
135•thomascountz•3h ago•30 comments

The Typeframe PX-88 Portable Computing System

https://www.typeframe.net/
50•birdculture•2h ago•16 comments

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

35•david927•3h ago•83 comments

AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2

https://www.ufried.com/blog/ironies_of_ai_2/
170•BinaryIgor•7h ago•59 comments

Stop crawling my HTML you dickheads – use the API

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/stop-crawling-my-html-you-dickheads-use-the-api/
68•edent•1h ago•60 comments

Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons

https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/developing-hardwax-oil/
55•alin23•3d ago•28 comments

Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem

https://trigger.dev/blog/shai-hulud-postmortem
128•nkko•10h ago•78 comments

Do Dyslexia Fonts Actually Work? (2022)

https://www.edutopia.org/article/do-dyslexia-fonts-actually-work/
6•CharlesW•40m ago•2 comments

In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt
12•wseqyrku•6d ago•1 comments

GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over

https://johnjames.blog/posts/graphql-the-enterprise-honeymoon-is-over
73•johnjames4214•3h ago•56 comments

Standalone Meshtastic Command Center – One HTML File Offline

https://github.com/Jordan-Townsend/Standalone
19•Subtextofficial•5d ago•2 comments

Illuminating the processor core with LLVM-mca

https://abseil.io/fast/99
41•ckennelly•5h ago•3 comments

Freakpages

https://freakpages.org/
6•bookofjoe•1h ago•0 comments

Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C

https://fil-c.org/seccomp
320•pizlonator•21h ago•122 comments

Price of a bot army revealed across online platforms

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/price-bot-army-global-index
17•teleforce•4h ago•1 comments

Apple Maps claims it's 29,905 miles away

https://mathstodon.xyz/@dpiponi/115651419771418748
133•ColinWright•6h ago•107 comments

Vacuum Is a Lie: About Your Indexes

https://boringsql.com/posts/vacuum-is-lie/
55•birdculture•7h ago•35 comments

Compiler Engineering in Practice

https://chisophugis.github.io/2025/12/08/compiler-engineering-in-practice-part-1-what-is-a-compil...
84•dhruv3006•12h ago•12 comments

iOS 26.2 fixes 20 security vulnerabilities, 2 actively exploited

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/12/ios-26-2-security-vulnerabilities/
71•akyuu•4h ago•64 comments

Kimi K2 1T model runs on 2 512GB M3 Ultras

https://twitter.com/awnihannun/status/1943723599971443134
161•jeudesprits•7h ago•76 comments

Efficient Basic Coding for the ZX Spectrum

https://blog.jafma.net/2020/02/24/efficient-basic-coding-for-the-zx-spectrum/
36•rcarmo•8h ago•9 comments

More atmospheric rivers coming for flooded Washington and the West Coast

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/weather/washington-west-coast-flooding-atmospheric-rivers-climate
19•Bender•2h ago•4 comments

Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 Release: 87.75% compatibility with GNU Coreutils

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/tag/0.5.0
72•maxloh•3h ago•47 comments

I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model

https://susam.net/fed-24-years-of-posts-to-markov-model.html
272•zdw•1d ago•107 comments

Getting into Public Speaking

https://james.brooks.page/blog/getting-into-public-speaking
74•jbrooksuk•4d ago•29 comments

Science Communications on YouTube

https://blogs.memphis.edu/awindsor/2025/02/25/science-communication-on-youtube/
31•azhenley•1w ago•38 comments

Using e-ink tablet as monitor for Linux

https://alavi.me/blog/e-ink-tablet-as-monitor-linux/
232•yolkedgeek•5d ago•88 comments

Cat Gap

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_gap
185•Petiver•4d ago•54 comments

Show HN: Cargo-rail: graph-aware monorepo tooling for Rust; 11 deps

https://github.com/loadingalias/cargo-rail
39•LoadingALIAS•3d ago•3 comments

I tried Gleam for Advent of Code

https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/gleamaoc2025/
329•tymscar•1d ago•192 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/