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Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997

https://titleart.dvy.io/
33•davidbarker•1h ago•8 comments

PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP

https://github.com/KrushnaVardhanReddy/PaperPilot
15•vardhan1237•59m ago•1 comments

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

https://imaginationlibrary.com/
458•jumploops•10h ago•85 comments

Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard

https://github.com/notaroomba/keybytes
32•NotARoomba•1d ago•8 comments

Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs

https://charliegerard.dev/blog/overgrown-extension/
198•speckx•3d ago•56 comments

Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office

https://exhibits.stanford.edu/menuez/browse/next-computer-inc?per_page=96&sort=pub_year_isi+asc%2...
12•Austin_Conlon•56m ago•4 comments

Brazil elections: Lula secures fourth term after dramatic comeback

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmvg7p001qj9o
57•gverrilla•1h ago•2 comments

F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS

https://hypnotize.works/gdx-3ds/postmortem/index.html
81•bpierre•5h ago•40 comments

Attention Is Not What You Need (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19428
53•westurner•4h ago•20 comments

IBM CEO says open weight models are now irresistibly good and cheap on-prem

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10/22/ibm-ceo-says-open-weight-models-are-now-irresistib...
90•Betelbuddy•2h ago•44 comments

Why I Am a Programmer

https://www.alfie.wtf/programming/why-i-am-a-programmer.html
167•jruohonen•9h ago•57 comments

What goes into making an animated film?

https://www.disneyanimation.com/process/
116•embedding-shape•8h ago•47 comments

The State of Context Engineering

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/10/24/the-state-of-context-engineering.html
120•pchristensen•7h ago•32 comments

Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category

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80•textlanes33•3h ago•32 comments

Show HN: ADRs for AI – Deliberation records for human–AI work, versioned in Git

https://adrs.systems
18•lumbroso•1d ago•13 comments

If AI displaces human workers, they will lose more than just pay

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16•andsoitis•2h ago•16 comments

iPhone Duo Teardown

https://www.ifixit.com/News/119895/iphone-duo-teardown
72•kripy•3h ago•37 comments

Iron Age salt-mining complex found beneath Hallstatt in Austria

https://archaeologymag.com/2026/09/iron-age-salt-mining-complex-beneath-hallstatt/
25•janandonly•3d ago•3 comments

The Fall of Scientific American

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/scientific-american-springer-nature-trump/
12•littlexsparkee•1d ago•1 comments

A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis

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491•sungam•11h ago•221 comments

Amazon's "digital pacifier" for toddlers

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125•jumploops•4d ago•186 comments

OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?

https://minimaxir.com/2026/10/cheap-llms/
212•minimaxir•7h ago•239 comments

Making the Buddha Head from Merv Whole Again

https://www.getty.edu/news/buddha-head-of-merv-turkmenistan-conservation/
30•laybak•2d ago•0 comments

We should be more ambitious with the software we build

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761•ltratt•1d ago•698 comments

Steal My Bitcoin CTF PoC

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37•davikr•4h ago•6 comments

Retired decorator's Pokémon cards sell for £1.5M

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25•HelloUsername•3d ago•16 comments

I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27

https://talkweb.eu/openweb/4558/
429•Tomte•10h ago•207 comments

Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop

https://theintercept.com/2026/10/01/oregon-police-misconduct-public-records-cost-fee/
434•tdeck•10h ago•116 comments

Where the Romans Fought (interactive map)

https://iosiflazaridis.github.io/battles-of-the-romans/
63•endorphine•9h ago•30 comments

Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset

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134•greenchair•15h ago•56 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/