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SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15

https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-15
1048•ls612•9h ago•700 comments

Lovable apps expose passport details and more than 200K private messages

https://www.crissyfield.de/research/lovable-en/
758•armcat•13h ago•300 comments

Memory Safety Bugs in Rust Standard Library

https://forge-blog.github.io/posts/rust-std-memory-safety/
55•pjmlp•2d ago•11 comments

How did Woz write the Apple 1 BASIC before building the computer?

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/17957
179•Skyfall106•8h ago•77 comments

Court denies motion to dismiss DRAM price fixing case

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57•ybathaee•5h ago•8 comments

Show HN: Gawain – Require type hints on all Python variables

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29•MarinhoD•2h ago•10 comments

A rare glimpse inside the high-risk, high-reward Hormuz trade

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7•everybodyknows•4d ago•0 comments

The Evolving Story of How Chemistry Became Biology

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33•pseudolus•1d ago•1 comments

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22•tthanh2k6•2h ago•2 comments

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28•jordigh•4h ago•0 comments

We're Asking an Appeals Court to Require a Warrant for ALPR Searches

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186•nobody9999•5h ago•51 comments

A family tree of software job titles

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275•umerf•13h ago•134 comments

KDE: The documentary [video]

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437•mrkn1•17h ago•94 comments

PyPI's redesigned project pages with clearer security signals are now live

https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2026-11-06-ui-updates-complete/
230•rbanffy•15h ago•99 comments

One Man's Quest to Create the Perfect Whiskey Glass

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23•Kaibeezy•1d ago•4 comments

500 Lines or Less A 3D Modeller

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40•myth_drannon•1d ago•4 comments

Why get an expensive Pi when I have an old phone?

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541•casi•4d ago•297 comments

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219•VaibhaavTiwari•15h ago•19 comments

Oxford Molecular Motors

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39•handfuloflight•3d ago•5 comments

Project Zero will disclose vulnerabilities 90 days after reporting

https://projectzero.google/2026/11/disclosure-policy.html
225•hacb•19h ago•88 comments

Advancing science and engineering with Antigravity's /teamwork

https://research.google/blog/advancing-science-engineering-with-antigravitys-teamwork-feature/
192•acossta•17h ago•40 comments

Astro Spiral: Greatest Car Stunt Was Also First Computer-Modeled Stunt

https://boldentrance.com/astro-spiral-the-greatest-car-stunt/
24•CharlesW•2d ago•0 comments

The Sicilian Citrus Family Tree

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61•wmchen•4d ago•20 comments

Generative AI uses more energy on non-English text

https://news.umich.edu/generative-ai-uses-more-energy-on-non-english-text/
200•DeepLogin•4d ago•104 comments

Seagate's new hybrid drive raises some old questions

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93•PaulHoule•3d ago•42 comments

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27•bobbiechen•6h ago•5 comments

'Grey Rocking': The Life-Improving Power of Being Really, Really Boring (2021)

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136•NaOH•2d ago•77 comments

Testing a trash can Faraday cage

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73•torutofu•2d ago•57 comments

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153•snipedbywifi•16h ago•38 comments

Kiri – The Modern Container Runtime

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17•nikolay•2h ago•9 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/