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A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury

https://blog.haskell.org/a-couple-million-lines-of-haskell/
228•unignorant•10h ago•97 comments

This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-04-30/
340•richardboegli•13h ago•76 comments

Dav2d

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav2d
484•dabinat•17h ago•134 comments

Unverified Evaluations in Dusk's PLONK

https://osec.io/blog/2026-04-30-unverified-evaluations-dusk-plonk/
24•deut-erium•2d ago•2 comments

Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS

https://www.david-smith.org/blog/2026/04/29/maps-on-watchos/
303•valzevul•13h ago•72 comments

Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML

https://acai.sh/blog/specsmaxxing
125•brendanmc6•4h ago•120 comments

Do_not_track

https://donottrack.sh/
340•RubyGuy•17h ago•109 comments

Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/07/neanderthals-ran-fat-factories-125000-years-ago
194•andsoitis•14h ago•92 comments

Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/05/01/windows-quality-update-progress-weve-made-si...
44•jovial_cavalier•1d ago•73 comments

Sourcefeed – a pop-up RSS service

https://www.sourcefeed.app/
24•bjhess•4d ago•7 comments

Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels

https://www.newsonjapan.com/article/149075.php
44•mikhael•9h ago•13 comments

Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade

https://www.epo.org/en/news-events/news/inventions-battery-reuse-and-recycling-increase-more-seve...
204•JeanKage•3d ago•18 comments

VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226
1216•indrora•14h ago•626 comments

Group averages obscure how an individual's brain controls behavior: study

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/04/brain-scans-individual-versus-group.html
5•hhs•2d ago•0 comments

A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm

https://lwn.net/Articles/1066156/
83•signa11•2d ago•22 comments

The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox

https://www.mendral.com/blog/agent-harness-belongs-outside-sandbox
105•shad42•13h ago•82 comments

Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement

https://www.clojuriststogether.org/news/q2-2026-funding-announcement/
109•dragandj•13h ago•11 comments

Because it doesn't have to

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/04/because-it-doesnt-have-to.html
52•zdw•3d ago•13 comments

Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters

https://hnup.date/hn-sota
112•yunusabd•13h ago•59 comments

Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API (2024)

https://retrocoding.net/windows-api-is-successful-cross-platform-api
76•phendrenad2•7h ago•80 comments

San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names

https://j-nelson.net/san-francisco-streets-with-similar-names/
27•SeenNotHeard•2d ago•39 comments

How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/02/how-fast-is-a-macos-vm-and-how-small-could-it-be/
249•moosia•1d ago•93 comments

A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games

https://easel.games/blog/2026-rollback-physics
89•BSTRhino•1d ago•31 comments

Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/business/surveillance-pricing-groceries-maryland.html
157•doener•9h ago•120 comments

AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share

https://fshot.org/techzone/the-algorithm-knows.php
31•victorkulla•8h ago•2 comments

Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge

https://thinkpol.ca/2026/04/30/an-open-weights-chinese-model-just-beat-claude-gpt-5-5-and-gemini-...
289•bazlightyear•6h ago•154 comments

Executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/pymanager-261/
20•ankitg12•3h ago•17 comments

The USB Situation

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-usb-situation/
130•herbertl•3d ago•156 comments

When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?

https://unherd.com/2026/04/is-ai-the-next-phase-of-evolution/
34•pentestercrab•2d ago•216 comments

Little magazines are back

https://wsjfreeexpression.substack.com/p/little-magazines-are-back
94•prismatic•2d ago•33 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/