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GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage

https://spectrum.ieee.org/sodium-ion-battery-peak-energy
52•rbanffy•1h ago•9 comments

The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

https://claude.com/blog/the-new-rules-of-context-engineering-for-claude-5-generation-models
93•mellosouls•2h ago•43 comments

Did They Ghost You?

https://didtheyghostyou.com/
102•mooreds•2h ago•41 comments

Stolen Buttons

https://anatolyzenkov.com/stolen-buttons
499•Gecko4072•5d ago•117 comments

Kimi K3 built a Windows XP in browser

https://windows-xp.kimi.site/
9•boveyking•50m ago•6 comments

Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB

https://kitsumed.github.io/blog/posts/android-may-soon-restrict-on-device-adb/
852•shscs911•15h ago•401 comments

Producing ammonia and fertiliser using wind power in Morris, Minnesota

https://ammoniaenergy.org/articles/flexible-renewable-ammonia-demonstrator-now-operational-in-min...
67•gritzko•3h ago•28 comments

Multicast TV Distribution on My Home Network

https://www.apalrd.net/posts/2026/isp_mcast/
16•mrngm•1h ago•2 comments

SIMD for Collision

https://box2d.org/posts/2026/07/simd-for-collision/
14•birdculture•3d ago•2 comments

Show HN: I made some transistor animations

https://brandonli.net/semisim/animations
94•stunningllama•1d ago•9 comments

Fly.io CEO Kurt Mackey is stepping down

https://fly.io/blog/kurt-scott-money-sprites/
106•subarctic•2h ago•55 comments

Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site

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90•jsax•5h ago•31 comments

Who does Anubis actually stop?

https://fzakaria.com/2026/07/09/who-does-anubis-actually-stop
22•type0•1h ago•23 comments

Digital Intelligence: Why Humanity Created What It Does Not Understand

https://singularityforge.space/2026/07/26/illusion-of-control/
4•Voice_of_Void•55m ago•2 comments

Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment

https://tobi.knaup.me/2026-07-25-open-weight-ai-is-having-its-kubernetes-moment/
278•tknaup•8h ago•227 comments

Bitchat is now on Radicle

https://radicle.network/nodes/rosa.radicle.network/rad%3Az2v9tRJz1oknFAqCSY5W5c76nVvm6
189•h1watt•9h ago•116 comments

Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/zero-roadkill-as-amazon-canopy-bridges-secure-15000-crossings/
242•hn_acker•3d ago•78 comments

How My Images Are Dithered

https://dead.garden/blog/how-my-images-are-dithered.html
206•surprisetalk•3d ago•73 comments

Show HN: Minesweeper Raycasted

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11•franze•3h ago•7 comments

Show HN: Yorishiro – a macOS terminal where AI agents live

https://github.com/sktkkoo/Yorishiro
23•hakumei•3d ago•5 comments

General Resolution: LLM Usage in Debian

https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002
19•zdw•3h ago•6 comments

Bringing PyTorch Monarch to AMD GPUs

https://pytorch.org/blog/bringing-pytorch-monarch-to-amd-gpus-single-controller-distributed-train...
56•gmays•6h ago•6 comments

The Dark Night of Mathematics

https://kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-night-of-mathematics
138•rmdmphilosopher•6h ago•166 comments

Building a Tiny 3D Renderer for a Tiny Handheld

https://saffroncr.itch.io/katavatis/devlog/1534514/building-a-tiny-3d-renderer-for-a-tiny-handheld
227•g0xA52A2A•3d ago•17 comments

The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/25/flock-surveillance-cameras
137•bookofjoe•3h ago•61 comments

Show HN: Writemark, a dependency free web component for inline Markdown editing

11•_boffin_•2h ago•5 comments

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/FGmI8mx-head-of-engineering
1•asontha•10h ago

Spatial languages: Writing code in 2D

https://shukla.io/blog/2026-07/cccx.html
97•BinRoo•3d ago•37 comments

The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory

https://supakeen.com/weblog/the-fedora-45-sausage-factory/
126•6581•11h ago•37 comments

Tile's security is so bad it's a feature for stalkers

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/05/tiles-security-is-so-bad-its-a-feature-for-stalkers/
121•sambellll•4h ago•40 comments
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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/