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Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam
224•Philpax•3h ago•62 comments

Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

https://qlabs.sh/research/dust
48•E-Reverance•1h ago•3 comments

Find the flattest route between any two points in SF

https://flattensf.com/
33•ishan0102•1h ago•7 comments

Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/room-temperature-magnetic-semiconductors
126•outlier99•1h ago•107 comments

Web Search API

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-02-introducing-web-search-api/
456•tosh•11h ago•208 comments

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]

https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf
78•vinhnx•2d ago•16 comments

Using Blu-ray M-Disk as Backup of Last Resort

https://smyck.net/2026/10/03/holocron-the-backup-of-last-resort/
22•hukl•1d ago•20 comments

Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1

https://floreal.tech/blog/2026/making-a-gtk-app-in-haskell-part-1/
119•Vosporos•8h ago•27 comments

Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge

https://www.techspot.com/news/114091-florida-woman-used-claude-diary-anthropic-reported-shoot.html
434•emptybits•17h ago•362 comments

A third way of using Linux

https://hisvirusness.com/third-is-the-way
13•speckx•2h ago•23 comments

How to save a life without knowing CPR

https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2026/10/beyondthemedspeak-how-to-save-life.html
53•bookofjoe•3d ago•38 comments

Incident with Actions

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/3q1yb5m7ltvb
83•hising•2h ago•56 comments

The Future of Mathematics

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/the-future-of-mathematics/
65•smilelamp•3h ago•27 comments

Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)

https://blog.lizzie.io/linux-containers-in-500-loc.html
83•mkornaukhov•8h ago•17 comments

Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear

https://github.com/rsutcliffe/nightwatch
64•delphidolphin•1d ago•9 comments

The lamps in my house

https://arslan.io/2026/10/05/the-lamps-in-my-house/
95•farslan•8h ago•55 comments

Apple and a hacker's future

https://stratechery.com/2026/apple-and-a-hackers-future/
176•maguay•12h ago•173 comments

Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-05/qualcomm-licenses-patents-on-huawei-s-logicfol...
168•0xedb•14h ago•105 comments

The first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients

https://spectrum.ieee.org/fully-implantable-cochlear-implant
51•rbanffy•4d ago•52 comments

DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit

https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda
4•greyface-•1d ago•0 comments

2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2026/summary/
113•lode•13h ago•45 comments

Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses

https://www.barrons.com/news/norway-eyes-partial-ban-of-smart-glasses-e65dc239
106•pseudolus•4h ago•64 comments

Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C (2025)

https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/typechecked-generic-c-data-structures/
127•AlexeyBrin•2d ago•98 comments

Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr`

https://blog.haskell.org/foldl-and-foldr/
124•signa11•4d ago•29 comments

The era of software quality, or the era of ostriches?

https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2026/10/02/the-era-of-software-quality-or-the-era-of-ostriches/
16•vinhnx•2d ago•58 comments

The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/mosquitoes-are-a-choice/
229•benbreen•1d ago•176 comments

Martian chaos terrain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_chaos_terrain
94•tiagod•3d ago•25 comments

Greenvolt begins building 600 MW/2.4 GWh BESS in Poland

https://www.ess-news.com/2026/09/25/greenvolt-begins-building-600-mw-2-4-gwh-bess-in-poland/
52•msalsas•4h ago•31 comments

Hot Flashing Guide Rev. 2.0 (2004)

https://archive.techarp.com/showarticle504a.html?pgno=0
12•userbinator•2d ago•1 comments

Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/41564-pixel-11-doesnt-yet-meet-the-grapheneos-security-standards...
385•finnlab•9h ago•229 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/