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Bug Blindness

https://danluu.com/bug-blind/
158•davidmckenna•5h ago•64 comments

Algorithmic Rent-Pricing Litigation Expands Under New State and Local Laws

https://www.morganlewis.com/pubs/2026/08/algorithmic-rent-pricing-litigation-expands-under-new-st...
51•toomuchtodo•3h ago•21 comments

Hy4 preview

https://www.tencent.com/tencent-releases-and-open-sources-tencent-hy4-preview/
245•shenli3514•10h ago•143 comments

RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython

https://blog.python.org/2026/08/riscv-now-officially-supported/
83•lumpa•5d ago•14 comments

Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (Or, "Size Is Everything")

https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html
25•Bluestein•4d ago•2 comments

Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux

https://zackbartel.com/blog/2026/08/tether/
410•zackb•6d ago•165 comments

Benjamin Franklin's Alter Egos Gave Him the Most Freedom

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/among-all-great-things-benjamin-franklin-invented-discover...
32•cisc•4h ago•9 comments

Show HN: I missed the moving blocks, so I built a real Linux disk defragmenter

https://github.com/gbin/defragger
39•gbin•4d ago•32 comments

Benchmarking Pocket-Scale Inference

https://artificialanalysis.ai/hardware-inference-stack/mobile-phones
17•sys42590•2d ago•1 comments

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/
171•JumpCrisscross•13h ago•69 comments

Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/28/texas-flock-cameras-auto-insurance-fee-mvcpa-grants/
221•DeepLogin•6h ago•108 comments

FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued

https://freecore.org/
61•sashk•4h ago•42 comments

SQLite as a Document Database (2020)

https://dgl.cx/2020/06/sqlite-json-support
191•lioeters•5d ago•47 comments

Is it safe to call print in a Python signal handler?

https://iafisher.com/2026/08/sigprint
33•hellerve•3d ago•13 comments

Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3830438.3830958
70•matt_d•10h ago•29 comments

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-exemption...
27•shscs911•2h ago•1 comments

Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role

https://tucker.wales/writing/bias-towards-action/
135•tuckerwales•12h ago•56 comments

Daycare Pseudoscience

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/daycare-pseudoscience/
19•surprisetalk•1d ago•0 comments

Glacier Mice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_mice
279•ostacke•5d ago•53 comments

EVE Online moves to Python 3

https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/the-move-to-python-3-begins
331•TylerJaacks•4d ago•178 comments

Open Oscar Server: open-source server compatible with AIM and ICQ clients

https://github.com/mk6i/open-oscar-server
17•gregsadetsky•5h ago•7 comments

Domain-Driven Agents

https://coldtake.dev/blog/domain-driven-agents
70•AlarQ•10h ago•14 comments

Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-samsungs-processing
255•ingve•23h ago•97 comments

DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/29/trump-dhs-1509-summons-records-journalists-nonpro...
372•firefax•10h ago•69 comments

Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI

https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/good-culture-is-the-biggest-productivity
321•gpi•12h ago•74 comments

Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework

https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli
394•hentrep•1d ago•105 comments

Recovering Corrupt Zip Files

https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/ashleys-blog-2/recovering-corrupt-zip-files-1895
49•AshleysBrain•3d ago•21 comments

Trees for a Changing Climate and Resilient Urban Forest (2022)

https://www.coolboulder.org/news/trees-for-a-changing-climate-resilient-urban-forest
44•mooreds•13h ago•5 comments

Sleepwalker: Passive Backdoor with Its Own Command Language

https://r136a1.dev/2026/08/24/sleepwalker-a-passive-backdoor-with-its-own-command-language/
66•defrost•5d ago•11 comments

Quantifying Colour

https://ekunazanu.foo/lab/quantifying-colour/
83•vismit2000•13h ago•8 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/