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Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distich
502•u1hcw9nx•5h ago•216 comments

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

https://www.atomic14.com/2026/09/13/why-is-google-still-serving-dodgy-ads
612•iamflimflam1•8h ago•287 comments

Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs

https://community.signalusers.org/t/registration-without-a-phone-number/2222?page=10
90•Cider9986•4h ago•42 comments

Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)

https://spaceships.treybastian.com/
13•zdw•3d ago•3 comments

Open-Source AI and Open Models Reading List

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/open-source-ai-reading-list
25•simonpure•1h ago•1 comments

Julia 1.13 highlights

https://julialang.org/blog/2026/09/julia-1.13-highlights/
159•eigenspace•3d ago•12 comments

Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/munJKF7iWMsWJLAH2/astra-and-fable-still-hack-on-simple-variants-o...
383•Levitating•11h ago•176 comments

Data collected by cars and sold to third parties

https://www.theverge.com/column/994172/your-car-is-selling-your-data
314•bookofjoe•12h ago•163 comments

Show HN: Is It Greg?

https://github.com/antoineleclair/is-it-greg
14•antoineleclair•22m ago•2 comments

Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003)

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/
67•walrus01•5h ago•8 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

91•david927•8h ago•196 comments

Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/automattic-confirms-mullenweg-has-returned-as-ceo-after-attempt...
49•ilamont•6h ago•101 comments

The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire

https://www.katjahoyer.uk/p/the-gdr-and-vietnam-from-fake-coffee
31•NaOH•3d ago•5 comments

The Coming War on General Computation (2011)

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation
52•gregsadetsky•2h ago•11 comments

Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust

https://bensimms.moe/reverse-engineering-scooter/
392•vinhnx•3d ago•90 comments

I build a mechanical watch face: a real gear train for a watch with no gears

https://myday24.com/blog/how-a-mechanical-watch-face-is-built/
16•tomasslavicek•3d ago•5 comments

Making Startups Powerful

https://paulgraham.com/powerful.html
164•tosh•12h ago•76 comments

I added a non-wi-fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant

https://medium.com/@ivangomezarnedo/how-i-added-a-non-wi-fi-mitsubishi-ac-to-home-assistant-22770...
181•ichacas•3d ago•86 comments

The case against JPEG XL

https://giannirosato.com/blog/post/case-against-jxl/
43•contact9879•1h ago•40 comments

Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260910-00/?p=112689
207•ibobev•13h ago•49 comments

Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi

https://honisoit.com/2022/03/writing-a-better-reality-the-case-for-optimistic-sci-fi/
4•andsoitis•1h ago•2 comments

CUDA for AMD on Windows

https://github.com/Speedstu/CUDA-for-AMD-Windows
141•chiassedu80•11h ago•72 comments

AI is not a normal technology

https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/ai-is-not-a-normal-technology
4•theahura•1h ago•5 comments

Apple's Dimensional Drawings

https://developer.apple.com/accessories/dimensional-drawings/
5•herbertl•2h ago•0 comments

Why is privacy so hard?

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/why-is-privacy-so-hard/
31•andsoitis•5h ago•25 comments

Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid"

https://zenodo.org/records/1430991
7•akkartik•2d ago•1 comments

Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace

https://aprilnea.me/en/blog/reverse-engineering-claude-code-antspace
60•rzk•2d ago•14 comments

The contagion of fear

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/the-contagion-of-fear/
142•elffjs•3h ago•104 comments

Bad code is kudzu

https://vickiboykis.com/2026/09/01/bad-code-is-kudzu/
40•surprisetalk•3d ago•12 comments

Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video] (2025)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TBNJyztai0
80•binyu•3d ago•21 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/