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Someone behind the software

https://karrisaarinen.com/posts/someone-behind-the-software/
187•tosh•4h ago•70 comments

Free Pascal compiler now supports dynamic packages

https://www.getlazarus.org/dynamic/
44•sysrpl•1h ago•11 comments

RepRapMicron

https://github.com/VikOlliver/RepRapMicron/wiki
288•RobotToaster•6h ago•43 comments

PalmOS Lemmings

https://github.com/ardiri/palmos-lemmings
46•memalign•2h ago•9 comments

DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/
493•fagnerbrack•13h ago•237 comments

The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction

https://www.righto.com/2026/10/8087-addition-subtraction-microcode.html
66•pwg•4h ago•16 comments

SIGSALY: Churchill's top secret hotline to the president

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/iwm/cwr/telephone
78•stmw•3d ago•19 comments

Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake

https://legendofhyrule.com/
132•jsomau•7h ago•72 comments

Developing for Debugging (2025)

https://www.davepacheco.net/blog/2025/developing-for-debugging-dns-propagation/
7•mpweiher•1d ago•0 comments

Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform

https://github.com/0x23/MicroManipulatorStepper
156•_Microft•9h ago•12 comments

Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1x8cycd/namecheap_just_seized_and_disabled_all_my_doma...
210•sashk•3h ago•112 comments

I electrified my push scooter with a power drill

https://eddieabbondanz.io/post/shop/drill-powered-scooter/
72•speckx•4d ago•25 comments

Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching

https://neilmadden.blog/2026/04/24/java-sealed-classes-and-exhaustive-pattern-matching/
106•hnisjafx40•5h ago•76 comments

Beyond Tetris: The other games of Alexey Pajitnov [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH_LPimUJMs
38•zdw•21h ago•0 comments

Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky

https://www.sciencealert.com/dogs-seem-to-agree-with-humans-that-bouba-is-round-and-kiki-is-spiky
24•gmays•18h ago•10 comments

Show HN: Ranet3 – High performance policy routed IPsec mesh SD-WAN

https://ranet3.com/
19•StepBroBD•6h ago•3 comments

How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving

https://www.readtheprofile.com/p/elizabeth-holmes-documentary-you-can-see-everything
329•MaysonL•17h ago•447 comments

Parser Combinators

https://t3.at/blog/2026-10-17-parser-combinators/
200•schindlabua•12h ago•74 comments

Geographical Fun: Being Humourous Outlines of Various Countries (1868)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/geographical-fun-being-humourous-outlines-of-various-co...
8•Thevet•1d ago•0 comments

One parser, two bugs, many routers: Exploiting Broadcom WiFi across eCos, Linux

https://quentinkaiser.be/security/2026/10/16/one-parser-two-bugs/
3•zoobab•2d ago•1 comments

CKKS – Addition and Multiplication

https://www.jeremykun.com/2026/10/11/ckks-addition-and-multiplication/
8•ibobev•2d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping

https://sphinx-six-theta.vercel.app/
228•critiquebrowser•16h ago•76 comments

Tiny Brutalism – Thanks to HN it's on Steam

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5426130/Tiny_Brutalism/
27•MatiErnst•1h ago•3 comments

Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/legal-experts-warn-metas-new-terms-still-grant-broad-scraping-p...
209•DeepLogin•10h ago•58 comments

Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis worse

https://hoaspy.com/hoa/fl/florida-hoa-housing-crisis.html
110•lovewins•1h ago•173 comments

Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua

https://teal-language.org/
142•Lyngbakr•1d ago•62 comments

Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/18/will-it-be-a-golden-age-or-a-dark-age-for-mathematics-a...
108•smilelamp•5h ago•143 comments

Voyage of the Paper Canoe: 2500 Miles from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, 1874-5

http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nhb/paperc/intro.html
24•Eridanus2•3d ago•5 comments

The Brain Sandwich

https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/10/02/the-brain-sandwich/
60•keyle•9h ago•36 comments

The Electronic Disturbance Theater and Electronic Civil Disobedience (1998)

https://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/EDTECD.html
29•jruohonen•6h 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/