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https://www.openbsd.org/80.html
124•privong•3h ago•32 comments

U.S. Supreme Court to review 1868 federal ban on home distilling of liquor

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2026/10/19/breaking-news/u-s-supreme-court-to-review-1868-federal-...
26•Jimmc414•1h ago•23 comments

WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator

https://redact.dev/blog/whatsapp-help-pages-hidden-ai-instructions
198•ds•6h ago•34 comments

MiniMax M3.1 Flash

https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m31f
423•jtg•12h ago•184 comments

France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months

https://ipinfo.io/blog/france-fridges-hack
86•emot•5h ago•71 comments

Weball: Play Katamari on Websites

https://www.funwithcomputervision.com/weball/
141•croes•1d ago•11 comments

I built a drone with only one motor [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndftcft6XhU
472•hakonjdjohnsen•20h ago•101 comments

DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-banning-chinese-ai-deepseek-government-agency-it-systems-20...
113•cmrdporcupine•13h ago•105 comments

Wine ported to OpenBSD

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=179236125692175
536•iamnothere•15h ago•177 comments

Go will reject certificate chains containing eight distrusted SPKIs

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/82345
35•mendym•2h ago•15 comments

An ad-free Android TV

https://cretezy.com/2026/ad-free-android-tv
96•CraftThatBlock•6h ago•34 comments

It's still ok to enjoy programming

https://chriskiehl.com/article/it-is-still-ok-to-enjoy-programming
518•goostavos•2d ago•476 comments

OpenBSD 8.0 release will have inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu drivers from Linux 6.18

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117407035545900963
132•doener•8h ago•28 comments

Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/ukraine-first-drone-evacuation-wounded-soldier-frontlines-h...
192•yzydserd•13h ago•145 comments

RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNm4zyUtWj0
178•evakhoury•2d ago•67 comments

OpenBSD 8.0: released Oct 20, 2026

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=179245849770356&w=2
26•erikschoster•3h ago•2 comments

Android apps running native on macOS

https://github.com/kksimp/Mac.apk
292•flocked•12h ago•156 comments

How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-do-fungi-keep-the-planet-healthy-20261015/
25•marojejian•2d ago•4 comments

Porting video games to VHS

https://gardinerbryant.com/what-if-video-games-came-on-vhs/
23•Kate0CoolLibby•2d ago•17 comments

Starcraft: Ashfall

https://starcraft-shooter-2026.pages.dev/
386•debo_•1d ago•117 comments

Developing Taste

https://emilkowal.ski/ui/developing-taste
28•cat-whisperer•4h ago•24 comments

One Hash Bloom Filters

https://calabro.io/ohbf
76•jcalabro•8h ago•10 comments

The ovary doesn't retire after menopause

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/10/the-ovary-doesnt-retire-after-menopause?fj=1&utm_so...
55•gmays•2d ago•6 comments

Show HN: Death Plan Switch, a self-hosted dead man's switch for solo devs

https://deathplanswitch.com/
3•romeo19361•53m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?

346•rzk•18h ago•490 comments

Refurb weekend II: Alpha Micro Eagle 300 and friends

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/10/refurb-weekend-ii-alpha-micro-eagle-300.html
9•classichasclass•2d ago•0 comments

How abliterated models can get you pwned

https://projectdiscovery.io/research/how-abliterated-models-can-get-you-pwned
72•chatmasta•6h ago•46 comments

Americans Are Spending More Money to Drive Worse Cars

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/americans-not-buying-electric-cars/689071/
10•fortran77•35m ago•2 comments

Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have a Microsoft account

https://josie.lol/blog/linux-rtx-spark
211•pfeifferj•8h ago•99 comments

Evidence (YC S21) Is Hiring Software Engineers

https://evidence.dev/jobs
1•hughess•12h ago
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/