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More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

https://tailscale.com/blog/jailbroken-kindle-proxy-tun-modes
189•Error6571•5h ago•65 comments

User Interfaces of the Demo Scene

https://www.datagubbe.se/scenegui/
206•zdw•6h ago•33 comments

SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers

https://micrologics.org/blog/sqlite-in-production-optimizing-wal-mode-concurrency-and-vfs-layers-...
67•ankitg12•3h ago•24 comments

Lisp moving Forth moving Lisp

https://letoverlambda.com/textmode.cl/guest/chap8.html
29•fallat•2d ago•5 comments

Codex Security

https://github.com/openai/codex-security
505•bakigul•13h ago•174 comments

Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript

https://github.com/twalichiewicz/HNewhere
319•twalichiewicz•12h ago•91 comments

Substack writers, you need a website

https://elizabethtai.com/2026/06/10/substack-writers-you-need-a-website/
549•speckx•17h ago•279 comments

Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9

https://mac-classic.com/news/half-life-ported-to-mac-os-9/
250•freediver•13h ago•117 comments

Cracking Windows Open: Porting RADV to Win32

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/cracking-windows-open-porting-radv-to-win...
48•zdw•6h ago•17 comments

Ancient Rome's version of Google Maps: how long to reach the beach

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13•gnabgib•6d ago•9 comments

LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences

https://learnvector.ai/
191•ajhai•8h ago•116 comments

Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes

https://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2026/kimi-k3-architecture-notes.html
430•ModelForge•18h ago•92 comments

ReFrame – The EPaper Camera

https://reframe.camera/
138•phil294•11h ago•28 comments

Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents

https://www.hubble.md/
118•handfuloflight•10h ago•47 comments

Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7

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239•tmtvl•17h ago•105 comments

Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'

https://www.slow-journalism.com/
299•speerer•18h ago•168 comments

Transformer Transformer: A Unified Model for Motion-Conditioned Robot Co-Design

https://transformer-transformer.github.io/
53•ilreb•6h ago•4 comments

Teach yourself programming in ten years (1998)

https://www.norvig.com/21-days.html
145•vinhnx•3d ago•89 comments

60 Years Ago, a Submerged Submarine Circled the Globe for the First Time (2020)

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22•baud147258•1d ago•9 comments

Hooray for the Sockets Interface

https://blog.apnic.net/2026/07/28/hooray-for-the-sockets-interface/
40•jruohonen•8h ago•21 comments

Log is non-monotonic in PHP and Lua

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/log-is-non-monotonic-in-php-and-lua/
59•ibobev•5d ago•39 comments

ChatGPT claims rogue AI attacked more companies

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2el319vzr3o
17•osrec•1h ago•6 comments

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222•pimterry•19h ago•139 comments

Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals

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247•garyhtou•18h ago•175 comments

The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade

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182•lkurtz•16h ago•330 comments

Mag Computer: A Mag History of RAM (1960–2025)

https://magworld.pw/episodes/computer/
23•evakhoury•4d ago•3 comments

Interview with Boris Cherny [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyPCVqFUyDo
60•knighthacker•1d ago•65 comments

Now is the time to give LLMs access to the ACM digital library

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/now-is-the-time-to-give-llms-access-to-the-acm-digital-library/
166•rbanffy•19h ago•137 comments

Truth is not a direction: a Tarski attack on LLM probes

https://abeljansma.nl/2026/07/10/truth-is-not-a-direction.html
100•abelaer•1d ago•59 comments

Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude

https://www.anthropic.com/research/discovering-cryptographic-weaknesses
218•gslin•17h ago•160 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/