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Ember-1

https://fireworks.ai/blog/ember-1
43•gmays•51m ago•6 comments

In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-discovery.html
109•danso•3h ago•42 comments

Writing Efficient C++ Code

https://asawicki.info/articles/writing_efficient_cpp_code.php
92•ibobev•1d ago•34 comments

There are no "rogue" AI agents

https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/there-are-no-rogue-ai-agents
155•zzzeek•2h ago•95 comments

Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/09/27/replacing-the-old-battery-on-rechargeable-bike-lights/
83•surprisetalk•4h ago•39 comments

The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures

https://www.ihatethefuture.com/2026/09/the-normalization-of-inexplicable.html
161•pxx•2h ago•51 comments

Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out

https://tinyaiarena.com/
44•hp6•2h ago•27 comments

Walgit: A Git server that is one binary in front of an object store

https://github.com/rgodha24/walgithub
36•handfuloflight•1d ago•6 comments

The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers

https://generalroboticslab.com/cartesian_handv1
10•AareyBaba•1d ago•2 comments

SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nvne3LzBls
68•CharlesW•51m ago•8 comments

Flip Fluid on Flip Dots

https://mitxela.com/projects/flipflip
299•blutack•1d ago•21 comments

Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests

https://fakecloud.dev/
66•theanonymousone•1d ago•39 comments

Faster prompt lookup drafting in llama.cpp

https://jadidbourbaki.github.io/blog/prompt-lookup-llama-cpp/
21•pptadversary•22h ago•2 comments

Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/we-have-found-traces-of-peace-thousands...
10•gmays•3h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web

https://www.markdown.beauty/
25•thiagoperes•4h ago•17 comments

Ten lines of code that changed my world

https://pixelambacht.nl/2026/ten-lines-of-code/
83•dimonomid•4h ago•21 comments

PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura

https://nura.eco/blog/2026/09/27/nura-rename/
95•HotGarbage•2h ago•13 comments

John Coltrane Centenary's – Impulse Records Release the Legendary Tiberi Tapes

https://www.jazzwise.com/content/news/john-coltrane-centenary-celebrations-see-impulse-records-re...
5•gregsadetsky•2d ago•0 comments

Show HN: A CC0 museum of retro 3D tricks you can paste into a page

https://3d-retro.com/
55•SouthWestAtlas•3d ago•10 comments

Video CDs Break Windows Explorer

https://clydesnotes.blogspot.com/2026/08/video-cds-break-windows-explorer.html
25•ClydeN•22h ago•5 comments

Go Concurrency Distilled

https://antonz.org/go-concurrency-distilled/
337•chmaynard•1d ago•142 comments

C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake

https://pikuma.com/blog/c-integer-sizes-not-a-mistake
42•ibobev•2d ago•64 comments

Finally, A True Blue Rose Exists

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/true-blue-rose-pigment-copigment
82•bookofjoe•1d ago•30 comments

Calling the AI bluff: Adding "Do not guess" cut made-up fields from 71% to 20%

https://earnanhonestdollar.com/bench
15•FKJ•58m ago•1 comments

PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock

https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe
472•Qision•2d ago•262 comments

Show HN: Trail – new kind of logic game

https://trail.franzai.com/
7•franze•11h ago•2 comments

The Greatest Pun in JavaScript

https://shukla.io/blog/2026-09/pun.html
5•BinRoo•1d ago•0 comments

Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate"

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/rusty-thoughts-on-parse-dont-validate/
51•ingve•9h ago•22 comments

Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/09/readings-bayeux-tapestry.html
21•zeristor•1d ago•6 comments

On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted

https://unsung.aresluna.org/they-had-no-concept-of-a-duty-of-care-to-their-users/
286•jandeboevrie•3h ago•248 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/