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How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-whistleblower-who-uncovered-the-nsas-big-brother-machine/
477•the-mitr•11h ago•155 comments

Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/i-can-never-talk-to-an-ai-anonymously
226•ilamont•1d ago•119 comments

For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/30/10
415•ori_b•11h ago•324 comments

Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library

https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/malicious-dependency-in-pytorch-lightning-used-for-ai-training/
349•j12y•12h ago•121 comments

I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers

https://gregraiz.com/blog/local-vibe/
27•graiz•2d ago•16 comments

Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?

https://rivian.com/support/article/can-i-disable-all-data-collection-from-my-vehicle
551•Cider9986•8h ago•213 comments

Maladaptive Frugality

https://herbertlui.net/maladaptive-frugality/
46•herbertl•2d ago•31 comments

CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940

https://labs.watchtowr.com/the-internet-is-falling-down-falling-down-falling-down-cpanel-whm-auth...
63•zikani_03•5h ago•19 comments

I built a Game Boy emulator in F#

https://nickkossolapov.github.io/fame-boy/building-a-game-boy-emulator-in-fsharp/
241•elvis70•11h ago•52 comments

Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

https://twitter.com/theo/status/2049645973350363168
1026•elmean•14h ago•572 comments

Vercel’s pricing page

https://theupsellgame.com/
146•bartoindahouse•8h ago•37 comments

How an oil refinery works

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-an-oil-refinery-works
361•chmaynard•14h ago•112 comments

Reverse Engineering SimTower

https://phulin.me/blog/simtower
160•patrickhulin•2d ago•25 comments

Show HN: Winpodx – run Windows apps on Linux as native windows

https://github.com/kernalix7/winpodx
40•kernalix7•2h ago•23 comments

Roboticist-Turned-Teacher Built a Life-Size Replica of Eniac

https://spectrum.ieee.org/roboticist-turned-teacher-eniac-replica
4•oldnetguy•1d ago•0 comments

You can beat the binary search

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/04/27/you-can-beat-the-binary-search/
278•vok•3d ago•127 comments

New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges

https://wideluxx.com
101•armadsen•2d ago•49 comments

OpenWarp

https://openwarp.zerx.dev
50•zero-lab•2h ago•53 comments

Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants

https://dpa-international.com/general-news/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:260430-930-14717/
777•mpweiher•16h ago•745 comments

Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected

https://sciencex.com/news/2026-04-snowball-earth-stranger-climate.html
53•wglb•6h ago•6 comments

Honker – Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and cron scheduler in a SQLite file

https://honker.dev/
187•ferriswil•13h ago•52 comments

Full-Text Search with DuckDB

https://peterdohertys.website/blog-posts/full-text-search-w-duckdb.html
108•ethagnawl•10h ago•26 comments

I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

https://bidprowl.com
264•scarsam•16h ago•75 comments

10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home

https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/04/10g-ethernet-what-i-did
168•gpjt•1d ago•121 comments

Does Postgres Scale?

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/benchmarking-workflow-execution-scalability-on-postgres
106•KraftyOne•9h ago•50 comments

The Church Rock Uranium Mill Spill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Rock_uranium_mill_spill
75•Sir_Twist•2d ago•5 comments

Show HN: What happens when you load a webpage (Interactive)

https://toolkit.whysonil.dev/how-it-works/internet-timeline/
14•otterwilde2•3d ago•7 comments

Follow-up to Carrot disclosure: Forgejo

https://dustri.org/b/follow-up-to-carrot-disclosure-forgejo.html
53•homebrewer•9h ago•7 comments

A Milestone in Formalization: The Sphere Packing Problem in Dimension 8

https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2604.23468
23•measurablefunc•2d ago•0 comments

Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga

https://www.democrata.es/en/politics/congress-and-senate/congress-will-act-against-massive-ip-blo...
431•akyuu•13h ago•176 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/