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The MacBook Pro's OLED PWM Problem: When a 'Better' Display Becomes Worse to Use

https://macanorak.com/the-macbook-pros-oled-pwm-problem-when-a-better-display-becomes-worse-to-use/
73•MacAnorak•1h ago•41 comments

SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15

https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-15
1406•ls612•17h ago•935 comments

Why did some Apollo missions carry a grenade launcher?

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/37775
112•Skyfall106•5h ago•69 comments

Understanding Positional Embeddings in Modern LLMs

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/understanding-positional-embeddings
41•vismit2000•2h ago•0 comments

Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html
24•ksec•1h ago•3 comments

Court denies motion to dismiss DRAM price fixing case

https://litnews.ai/articles/garciaguirre-samsung-sk-hynix-micron-dram-conspiracy-suit-survives-di...
319•ybathaee•13h ago•127 comments

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

https://www.crissyfield.de/research/lovable-en/
911•armcat•21h ago•344 comments

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol Status Code 483 (I'm Not a Freezer)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-banffy-httpbis-not-a-freezer/
4•rbanffy•14m ago•2 comments

What thousands of conversations look like inside a language model

https://operator0x.com/field-notes/qwen-conversation-state-space/
39•josip208•2d ago•10 comments

A NES emulator written in Odin

https://lucypero.com/lucynes.html
15•frostbyte7•1h ago•0 comments

Chasing an audio artifact on power loss

https://subalpinecircuits.com/chasing-an-audio-artifact-on-power-loss/
15•ireflect•2d ago•1 comments

Handwritten 200-year-old dismissal notice found on roof tile

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6jdmdzv25r9o
40•nephihaha•2d ago•24 comments

Lutnick Pushed to Weaken Chip Rules That Overlap with His Family Business

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/15/us/politics/lutnick-pushed-to-weaken-chip-rules-that-overlap-w...
88•JumpCrisscross•3h ago•23 comments

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

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/17957
256•Skyfall106•16h ago•133 comments

The Telephone Changed the World

https://lithub.com/how-the-telephone-changed-the-world/
6•NaOH•15h ago•0 comments

Disk encryption on NetBSD – achieving secrecy

https://netbsd.org/~nia/disk-encrypt/
66•jaypatelani•9h ago•14 comments

My favourite modern NES games

https://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/25-of-my-favourite-modern-nes-games/
145•jordigh•12h ago•19 comments

How to read codes from (many) IR remote controls with as little code as possible

https://bitbanksoftware.blogspot.com/2026/11/how-to-read-codes-from-many-ir-remote.html
3•speckx•3d ago•0 comments

KDE: The documentary [video]

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/fFinNHfanLT7aBEb2B8y4c
529•mrkn1•1d ago•121 comments

A family tree of software job titles

https://zwischenzugs.com/2026/11/03/a-family-tree-of-software-job-titles/
366•umerf•21h ago•183 comments

Strictly monotonic timestamps and gapless sequences in Rust

https://tsoracle.rs/
20•znano•2d ago•8 comments

Show HN: Carton Clock – A working pendulum clock made from empty drink cartons

https://www.niklasroy.com/carton-clock/
23•r0r0•2d ago•1 comments

Open-Source HF Communications for Remote Communities and Experimenters

https://www.ardc.net/rhizomaticas-hermes-and-mercury-expand-open-source-hf-communications-for-rem...
41•tejtm•4d ago•5 comments

Semicircle Packing

https://rorz.io/writing/semicircle-packing
57•sarreph•2d ago•5 comments

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

https://so.long.thanks.fish/why-pi-when-i-have-an-old-phone/
590•casi•5d ago•312 comments

The Evolving Story of How Chemistry Became Biology

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolving-story-of-how-chemistry-became-biology-20261112/
68•pseudolus•2d ago•16 comments

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

https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2026-11-06-ui-updates-complete/
259•rbanffy•23h ago•113 comments

500 Lines or Less A 3D Modeller

https://aosabook.org/en/500L/a-3d-modeller.html
80•myth_drannon•2d ago•11 comments

Book list for streetfighting computer scientists

https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php?title=Book_list_for_streetfighting_computer_scientists
70•num42•7h ago•26 comments

Project Zero will disclose vulnerabilities 90 days after reporting

https://projectzero.google/2026/11/disclosure-policy.html
292•hacb•1d ago•165 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/