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ArXiv Declares Independence from Cornell

https://www.science.org/content/article/arxiv-pioneering-preprint-server-declares-independence-co...
175•bookstore-romeo•3h ago•38 comments

Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/google-details-new-24-hour-process-to-sideload-unverified...
715•0xedb•14h ago•792 comments

Push events into a running session with channels

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/channels
313•jasonjmcghee•7h ago•176 comments

Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found

https://trustedsec.com/blog/full-disclosure-a-third-and-fourth-azure-sign-in-log-bypass-found
117•nyxgeek•6h ago•23 comments

Building a Reader for the Smallest Hard Drive

https://www.willwhang.dev/Reading-MK4001MTD/
13•voctor•3d ago•0 comments

FSF Threatens Anthropic over Infringed Copyright: Share Your LLMs Freel

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/2026-anthropic-settlement
43•m463•3d ago•19 comments

Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators (2011)

https://gist.github.com/mattmanning/1002653/b7a1e88479a10eaae3bd5298b8b2c86e16fb4404
128•robotnikman•7h ago•49 comments

Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers

https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit
244•modinfo•11h ago•137 comments

Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game

https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg1363742#msg1363742
331•PaulHoule•3d ago•44 comments

How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel

https://www.carryology.com/insights/how-the-turner-twins-are-mythbusting-modern-gear/
198•greedo•2d ago•101 comments

Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB

https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS
401•rohan_joshi•15h ago•154 comments

A Journey Through Infertility

https://pudding.cool/2026/03/ivf/
23•tchanukvadze•2d ago•8 comments

4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c624330lg1ko
349•mosura•17h ago•586 comments

Noq: n0's new QUIC implementation in Rust

https://www.iroh.computer/blog/noq-announcement
192•od0•13h ago•24 comments

Astral to Join OpenAI

https://astral.sh/blog/openai
1329•ibraheemdev•18h ago•822 comments

Clockwise acquired by Salesforce

https://www.getclockwise.com
112•nigelgutzmann•11h ago•60 comments

FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us

https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260316-01.en.html
14•rasjani•37m ago•1 comments

Launch HN: Voltair (YC W26) – Drone and charging network for power utilities

70•wweissbluth•14h ago•26 comments

Be intentional about how AI changes your codebase

https://aicode.swerdlow.dev
108•benswerd•10h ago•42 comments

Linux Page Faults, MMAP, and userfaultfd for faster VM boots

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/65/linux-page-faults-mmap-and-userfaultfd/
27•shayonj•1d ago•0 comments

From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story (2022)

https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2022-08-11-udp/
109•ofrzeta•12h ago•21 comments

Scaling Karpathy's Autoresearch: What Happens When the Agent Gets a GPU Cluster

https://blog.skypilot.co/scaling-autoresearch/
164•hopechong•14h ago•69 comments

How many branches can your CPU predict?

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/03/18/how-many-branches-can-your-cpu-predict/
66•chmaynard•1d ago•45 comments

NanoGPT Slowrun: 10x Data Efficiency with Infinite Compute

https://qlabs.sh/10x
136•sdpmas•12h ago•28 comments

OpenBSD: PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260319125859
193•defrost•18h ago•60 comments

Last love: a romance in a care home (2023)

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/nov/23/last-love-a-romance-in-a-care-home
22•NaOH•3d ago•6 comments

Waymo Safety Impact

https://waymo.com/safety/impact/
294•xnx•11h ago•296 comments

Launch HN: Canary (YC W26) – AI QA that understands your code

52•Visweshyc•15h ago•20 comments

Bombarding gamblers with offers greatly increases betting and gambling harm

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2026/march/bombarding-gamblers-with-offers-greatly-increases-betti...
132•hhs•8h ago•99 comments

Physicists Trace Sun's Magnetic Engine, 200k Kilometers Below Surface

https://news.njit.edu/njit-physicists-trace-sun%E2%80%99s-magnetic-engine-200000-kilometers-below...
18•gmays•5h 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•11mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•11mo 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•11mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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/