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A short explainer on how El Niño works [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_JF3etiAv8
93•nharada•2h ago•15 comments

Do House members' stock trades beat the market? A test of 8,900 trades

https://arkanumdata.com/research/house-trades
40•Bluestein•1h ago•15 comments

'Birdbrain' Is a Misnomer. Crows Make Decisions Faster Than We Can

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/15/science/birdbrain-crows-birds-research-decision.html
79•gumby•3h ago•49 comments

The MacBook Pro's OLED PWM problem

https://macanorak.com/the-macbook-pros-oled-pwm-problem-when-a-better-display-becomes-worse-to-use/
340•MacAnorak•7h ago•177 comments

Claude Code and Codex reverse engineered my 1994 Jeep's ECU over a $3 Arduino [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPj3aQ-xxpI
228•envoked•3d ago•103 comments

Eclipse Mosquitto – An open source MQTT broker

https://github.com/eclipse-mosquitto/mosquitto
31•gregsadetsky•2h ago•10 comments

Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html
159•ksec•7h ago•77 comments

Microsoft 365 outage leads to chlorine gas poisoning of 15 hotel guests

https://www1.wdr.de/nrw/rheinland/rhein-erft-kreis/technischer-defekt-chlor-phantasialand-100.html
164•DeepLogin•2h ago•78 comments

Emacs Is My Browser

https://joshblais.com/blog/emacs-as-my-browser/
137•nyc111•5h ago•70 comments

Understanding Positional Embeddings in Modern LLMs

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/understanding-positional-embeddings
169•vismit2000•8h ago•13 comments

Clice v1.0 Released: Welcome to Modern C++

https://ykiko.me/en/articles/2105384023094834022/
38•molenzwiebel•3h ago•19 comments

Your room can be as bright as the outdoors (2019)

https://www.benkuhn.net/lux/
29•mday404•2d ago•7 comments

Jensen Huang discusses comeback as Nvidia CEO with allies

https://www.ft.com/content/45383d86-33c4-4d99-86e5-5e058d3567c1
63•eyalitki•1h ago•38 comments

All AI-generated code should be Open Source

https://jakub.jankiewicz.org/blog/ai-code-open-source/
928•jcubic•6h ago•509 comments

Notes on Mathematics for Engineers (1959) [pdf]

https://websites.umich.edu/~ners311/CourseLibrary/MathNotes.pdf
43•the-mitr•4d ago•13 comments

Parents pay $75k for Alpha's AI school. Half of its students missed math target

https://fortune.com/2026/11/14/alpha-school-ai-students-tuition-learning-goals/
42•vrganj•1h ago•35 comments

Court denies motion to dismiss DRAM price fixing case

https://litnews.ai/articles/garciaguirre-samsung-sk-hynix-micron-dram-conspiracy-suit-survives-di...
458•ybathaee•19h ago•207 comments

Eval Awareness vs. Eval Paranoia

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mepsi7JNKYejq9wry/eval-awareness-vs-eval-paranoia
27•ezrasu•3d ago•10 comments

A NES emulator written in Odin

https://lucypero.com/lucynes.html
85•frostbyte7•8h ago•31 comments

Why did some Apollo missions carry a grenade launcher?

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/37775
197•Skyfall106•11h ago•139 comments

20 Years of Pyrolog

https://pypy.org/posts/2026/11/20-years-of-pyrolog.html
58•lumpa•3d ago•4 comments

What thousands of conversations look like inside a language model

https://operator0x.com/field-notes/qwen-conversation-state-space/
96•josip208•2d ago•29 comments

SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15

https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-15
1594•ls612•23h ago•1153 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...
388•JumpCrisscross•9h ago•177 comments

Protomaps: Self-hosting map tiles has gotten cheap and easy

https://bruceroettgers.eu/blog/protomaps/
3•bcye•1h ago•0 comments

Chasing an audio artifact on power loss

https://subalpinecircuits.com/chasing-an-audio-artifact-on-power-loss/
48•ireflect•2d ago•7 comments

The Telephone Changed the World

https://lithub.com/how-the-telephone-changed-the-world/
44•NaOH•22h ago•23 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
53•speckx•4d ago•8 comments

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

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/17957
304•Skyfall106•22h ago•158 comments

Bullet Dodged

https://idiotking.org/archives/2026/10/bullet-dodged-3/
15•surprisetalk•3d ago•11 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/