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Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice

https://www.jaist.ac.jp/english/whatsnew/press/2025/12/17-1.html
268•Xunxi•7h ago•62 comments

Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed

https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3-flash/
872•meetpateltech•13h ago•467 comments

OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer

https://obsproject.com/blog/obs-studio-gets-a-new-renderer
194•aizk•9h ago•40 comments

Coursera to combine with Udemy

https://investor.coursera.com/news/news-details/2025/Coursera-to-Combine-with-Udemy-to-Empower-th...
472•throwaway019254•17h ago•284 comments

I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero

https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/my-server-started-mining-monero-this-morning/
278•jakelsaunders94•9h ago•195 comments

Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)

https://jsomers.net/blog/speed-matters
105•bschne•3d ago•49 comments

Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

138•cvbox•4h ago•82 comments

More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review, often against guidance

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04066-5
17•neilv•56m ago•2 comments

AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'

https://www.finalroundai.com/blog/aws-ceo-ai-cannot-replace-junior-developers
852•birdculture•13h ago•450 comments

Don MacKinnon: Why Simplicity Beats Cleverness in Software Design [audio]

https://maintainable.fm/episodes/don-mackinnon-why-simplicity-beats-cleverness-in-software-design
23•mooreds•2d ago•2 comments

TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps?

https://noyb.eu/en/tiktok-unlawfully-tracks-your-shopping-habits-and-your-use-dating-apps
151•doener•5h ago•74 comments

A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images

https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-hardened-images-for-every-developer/
302•anttiharju•13h ago•61 comments

Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser"

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/mozilla-new-ceo-firefox-ai-browser-strategy
19•LopRabbit•1h ago•19 comments

Tell HN: HN was down

522•uyzstvqs•13h ago•294 comments

Show HN: High-Performance Wavelet Matrix for Python, Implemented in Rust

https://pypi.org/project/wavelet-matrix/
78•math-hiyoko•10h ago•2 comments

My payment agent is named George, not stripe-agent

https://blog.kestrelsnest.social/posts/2025-12-14-why-my-payment-agent-is-named-george-not-stripe...
47•fortyseven•3d ago•32 comments

Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT

https://openai.com/index/developers-can-now-submit-apps-to-chatgpt/
110•tananaev•7h ago•66 comments

Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/05/vizio_gpl_source_code_ruling/
17•pabs3•1h ago•1 comments

Inside PostHog: SSRF, ClickHouse SQL Escape and Default Postgres Creds to RCE

https://mdisec.com/inside-posthog-how-ssrf-a-clickhouse-sql-escaping-0day-and-default-postgresql-...
87•arwt•9h ago•23 comments

Zmij: Faster floating point double-to-string conversion

https://vitaut.net/posts/2025/faster-dtoa/
113•fanf2•3d ago•15 comments

Show HN: I built a fast RSS reader in Zig

https://github.com/superstarryeyes/hys
41•superstarryeyes•1d ago•11 comments

Oasis: Pooling PCIe Devices over CXL to Boost Utilization

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3731569.3764812
5•blakepelton•5d ago•1 comments

The Number That Turned Sideways

https://zuriby.github.io/math.github.io/the-number-that-turned-sideways.html
34•tzury•4d ago•14 comments

How SQLite is tested

https://sqlite.org/testing.html
264•whatisabcdefgh•12h ago•73 comments

Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?

5•jannesblobel•6h ago•9 comments

Fast SEQUENCE iteration in Common Lisp

https://world-playground-deceit.net/blog/2025/12/fast-sequence-iteration-in-common-lisp.html
43•BoingBoomTschak•4d ago•8 comments

Launch HN: Kenobi (YC W22) – Personalize your website for every visitor

38•sarreph•13h ago•53 comments

Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review

https://radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-review/2025
69•ksec•8h ago•29 comments

Opencoil – appropriating inductive charging pads in the wild (2020) [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-11575-opencoil_a_roaming_speedshow
4•thenthenthen•2d ago•0 comments

A look back: LANPAR, the first spreadsheet

https://technicallywewrite.com/2025/12/16/lanpar
25•rbanffy•7h ago•1 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•8mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•8mo 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•8mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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/