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FAA Issues National Ground Stop

https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_otherdis?adv_date=11132026&advn=111
570•zulln•1h ago•241 comments

$11.4M in Nvidia hardware vanishes during shipment from CA to TX

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/11-4-million-in-nvidia-hardware-vanishes-during-shipment-from-c...
190•crescit_eundo•3h ago•106 comments

FM-1 Workbench

https://open.m-vave.com/fm1-workbench
116•simonebrunozzi•2h ago•74 comments

After 600 experiments, here's what I discovered about JEPA world models

https://haddyalchaer.com/jepa
175•halcdev•4h ago•31 comments

Reverse engineering my Coway air purifier to ditch the cloud

https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-11-11-reverse-engineering-my-coway-air-purifier-to-ditch-the-cloud/
624•scottjg•1d ago•183 comments

US Radar Service Outage

https://www.weather.gov/afc/radaroutage
11•amarcheschi•19m ago•2 comments

Perplexity Decider v1.3: Training, eval, and use cases

https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/perplexity-decider
65•gmays•2h ago•12 comments

Autonomous (YC F25) is hiring MTS to build AI agents that manage your wealth

https://atg.science/careers
1•dkobran•1h ago

Found: A protein that drives ageing without unleashing inflammation

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03638-3
57•gumby•2h ago•10 comments

Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026 (1960)

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.132.3436.1291
409•voxleone•9h ago•287 comments

Big tech is here to let us down

https://blog.jsweeting.me/big-tech-is-here-to-let-us-down
133•speckx•1h ago•120 comments

Live-migration support in FreeBSD and bhyve coming

https://gyptazy.com/blog/freebsd-bhyve-live-migration-support-rfc/
30•JohnDohnBohn•2h ago•2 comments

Ctrl+C, Ctrl+v, Ctrl+cve: Bypassing Android's Clipboard Read Security Measures

https://toninoble.com/post/ctrlc-ctrlv-ctrlcve
46•dethmasque•3h ago•20 comments

Show HN: Isometric SF – A pixel-art map of the SF Bay Area

https://isometricsf.com/
110•juscha1•4h ago•43 comments

All US airports are currently ground stopped

https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/2121347654714077605
71•defly•1h ago•17 comments

A technical vision for the Haskell ecosystem

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/a-technical-vision-for-the-haskell-ecosystem/15078
156•cosmic_quanta•7h ago•74 comments

Live airband on all frequencies from KORS. Victoria, CA also ground stopped

https://orcasairband.com/
4•mmaunder•5m ago•0 comments

No AI Slop: A Manifesto

https://www.slopmanifesto.com/
125•bankombinator•2h ago•67 comments

AI unlocks Gödel's notebooks, said to contain hundreds of proved theorems

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/nov/13/kurt-godel-notebooks-ai-helps-unlock-hidden-disco...
262•bookofjoe•4h ago•77 comments

FAA issues nationwide ground stop due to "extraordinary circumstances"

https://www.axios.com/2026/11/13/faa-nationwide-ground-stop
78•owenshen24•1h ago•21 comments

Minnesota guitarist's "palmfrets" invention strikes a new chord

https://www.echopress.com/business/minnesota-guitarists-invention-strikes-a-new-chord
104•bookofjoe•7h ago•67 comments

It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on an iPad

https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1xuup7a/technology_sucks_it_literally_takes_16_clicks_...
194•BobaFloutist•3h ago•98 comments

Models can now transmit viruses in weight-space

https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2611.weight-space-misfolding
118•mkglees•3h ago•40 comments

Lonewolf 0.3 – A standalone XMPP server written in Rust

https://github.com/lonewolf-im/lonewolf/releases/tag/v0.3.0
115•ortuman•7h ago•32 comments

OpenAI disbands its robotics team as its general models start running robots

https://fortune.com/2026/11/13/openai-disbands-robotics-team-as-its-general-models-start-running-...
119•sshah03•4h ago•53 comments

Apify Security Incident

https://status.apify.com/incidents/sxd1dj5j6749
76•cynicalpeace•5h ago•10 comments

CERN Built the Large Hadron Collider's Next-Gen Magnets

https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-hadron-collider-superconducting-magnets
56•marc__1•7h ago•6 comments

Someone's Impersonating This Blog

https://mattbee.mataroa.blog/p/someones-impersonating-this-blog/
56•speckx•2h ago•1 comments

Microsoft outage gives customers a crash course in dependence on Redmond

https://www.theregister.com/saas/2026/11/13/microsoft-outage-gives-customers-a-crash-course-in-de...
76•nephihaha•3h ago•22 comments

Concurrent Shell Command Queues

https://emmer.dev/blog/concurrent-shell-command-queues/
20•speckx•4h ago•9 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/