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Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL

https://hacktivis.me/articles/cloudflare-turnstile-webgl-fingerprinting
529•HypnoticOcelot•12h ago•295 comments

1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices

https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-image-4b
295•modinfo•11h ago•102 comments

New Beam Spring Keyboards

https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/product/beam-spring-b104-keyboard/
64•recursivedoubts•2d ago•39 comments

Chuwi Minibook X: the netbook we deserve

https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2026/05/28/chuwi-minibook-x/
98•thcipriani•3h ago•82 comments

Shift from a Leader-Follower to a Leader-Leader Approach

https://www.practicalengineering.management/p/shift-from-a-leader-follower-to-a
3•Alupis•26m ago•0 comments

Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study

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492•MrJagil•10h ago•322 comments

Dav2d

https://jbkempf.com/blog/2026/dav2d/
401•captain_bender•14h ago•146 comments

United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert

https://simpleflying.com/united-airlines-767-returns-newark-bluetooth-name-alert/
277•Eridanus2•13h ago•432 comments

Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/meta-officially-launches-instagram-facebook-and-whatsapp-subscr...
127•tambourine_man•9h ago•200 comments

The four programming questions from my 1994 Microsoft internship interview (2023)

https://www.computerenhance.com/p/the-four-programming-questions-from
79•tosh•3d ago•32 comments

Reconciling Kubernetes cost estimates with CUR / FOCUS billing data

https://github.com/tanrikuluozlem/burn
26•OzlemT•2d ago•1 comments

Linux/M68k

http://www.linux-m68k.org/
62•doener•2d ago•17 comments

The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI

https://darylcecile.net/notes/speed-of-prototyping-age-of-ai
117•mooreds•9h ago•63 comments

Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC

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392•thunderbong•7h ago•191 comments

What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?

https://www.ft.com/content/2205e2d0-50dc-4e80-9bf7-78d0272276c0
91•uxhacker•2d ago•136 comments

Decades of Effort Restore Steelhead and Salmon Passage on Alameda Creek

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9•rawgabbit•2d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Streambed – Stream Postgres to Iceberg on S3, Supports Postgres Wire

https://github.com/viggy28/streambed
66•vira28•7h ago•12 comments

It's Not Just X. It's Y

https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/its-not-just-data-its-post-training/
108•mooreds•4h ago•89 comments

Restartable Sequences

https://justine.lol/rseq/
181•grappler•11h ago•52 comments

Unix in East Germany (GDR) (1990)

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26•downbad_•2d ago•4 comments

The Website Specification

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441•k1m•19h ago•184 comments

Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity

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124•Brajeshwar•3d ago•30 comments

London's Free Roof Terraces

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/05/londons-free-roof-terraces.html
269•zeristor•19h ago•132 comments

Using safe-area-inset to build mobile-safe layouts

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9•eustoria•1d ago•1 comments

Re: [PATCH] OOM_pardon, a.k.a. don't kill my xlock (2004)

https://lwn.net/Articles/104185/
60•luu•8h ago•48 comments

Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation

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128•speckx•3d ago•142 comments

Backpressure is all you need

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153•lucasfcosta•14h ago•87 comments

Odysseus – self-hosted AI workspace

https://github.com/pewdiepie-archdaemon/odysseus
119•Dzheky•10h ago•62 comments

The History of "Prisencolinensinainciusol"

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27•NaOH•7h ago•8 comments

'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut

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161•mindcrime•7h ago•80 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/