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Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem "NAVI" Pillay

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2026/press-release/
67•Anon84•1h ago•23 comments

Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

https://www.dgt.is/blog/2026-10-07-deepseek-freek-out/
811•jonotime•1d ago•717 comments

Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

https://cactuscompute.com/blog/whistle
792•gmays•18h ago•159 comments

Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen

https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen
4•franze•15m ago•0 comments

MXC - a sandboxed code execution system

https://github.com/microsoft/mxc
53•nreece•5h ago•20 comments

Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/man-discovers-his-parents-coffee-machine-used-1tb-of-data-i...
732•ck2•1d ago•450 comments

Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs

https://unsung.aresluna.org/deeper-dive-keyboard-differences-between-windows-and-macs/
170•sohkamyung•8h ago•149 comments

I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard

https://antonfrolov.substack.com/p/i-hired-an-illustrator-to-draw-my
682•soheilpro•2d ago•133 comments

Yes, and

https://htmx.org/essays/yes-and/
474•Michelangelo11•1d ago•156 comments

Theranos.world

https://www.theranos.world/
464•kbyatnal•17h ago•159 comments

The value of not getting to the point (2015)

https://ken.arneson.name/2015/11/the-value-of-not-getting-to-the-point/
175•NaOH•16h ago•61 comments

Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

250•mariocesar•2d ago•398 comments

OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics

https://karagila.org/2026/openai-pp/
130•md224•11h ago•194 comments

ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux

https://naturalsystems.io/eth68
167•chabad360•1d ago•93 comments

OTel-Native by Design – Building Products That Export to Any Observability Stack

https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/otel-native-by-design/
47•dhruv_ahuja•4h ago•9 comments

AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment

https://biohub.org/news/virtual-biology-initiative-expansion/
127•ray__•14h ago•18 comments

OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/08/fired-openai-safety-researchers-dispute-misconduct-claims-warn-...
31•trakkstar•1h ago•11 comments

Beauty in DVD Menus

https://vale.rocks/posts/dvd-menus
308•speckx•21h ago•164 comments

DuckDB Ducklake

https://github.com/duckdb/ducklake
189•saikatsg•1d ago•23 comments

Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser

https://quake-srp.pages.dev/
172•ilreb•5h ago•138 comments

A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)

https://mitchellh.com/writing/program-status-osc7501
158•mfiguiere•2d ago•47 comments

Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments

http://scottbezek.blogspot.com/2026/10/making-flexible-neon-t-shirt-with-leds.html
174•scottbez1•18h ago•30 comments

OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results

https://twitter.com/danintheory/status/2108065033070789090
324•sashank_1509•1d ago•578 comments

What should we tell our students?

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/what-should-we-tell-our-students/
122•sajid•8h ago•149 comments

ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1697900/full
316•bookofjoe•14h ago•206 comments

I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/mbe5IY2LF9
198•pyduan•1d ago•82 comments

Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter

https://openrouter.ai/stepfun/step-5-preview
129•AnneWodell•18h ago•31 comments

Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/archaeologists-are-reconstructing-the-invisible-tec...
136•Hooke•1d ago•55 comments

A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10546-z
137•bryanrasmussen•1d ago•12 comments

Bevy 0.20

https://bevy.org/news/bevy-0-20/
187•Philpax•12h ago•38 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/