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Apple Introduces New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-new-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra/
239•interpol_p•1h ago•138 comments

Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-and-m5-ultra-for-a-big-leap-in-perform...
315•interpol_p•1h ago•263 comments

France's tax agency got hacked (in French)

https://www.cybernetica.fr/piratage-des-impots-comment-en-est-on-arrive-la/
72•zakxxi•1h ago•38 comments

Apple's new Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-unveils-a-more-powerful-mac-mini-featuring-the-all-n...
43•runako•1h ago•24 comments

Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)

https://modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
99•garo-pro•2h ago•34 comments

Don't Wordle

https://dontwordle.com/
135•Hbruz0•2h ago•60 comments

Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown

https://www.imkylelambert.com/articles/building-a-backyard-office-the-build-and-cost-breakdown
15•surprisetalk•19m ago•1 comments

HelloAssembly The smallest possible complete Windows application

https://github.com/PlummersSoftwareLLC/HelloAssembly
41•Bluestein•3h ago•25 comments

Bomb Fishing Is Wreaking Havoc on Indonesia's Coral Reefs

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/bomb-fishing-coral-reefs
7•speckx•10m ago•1 comments

MySQL CDC to BigQuery: what periodic syncs miss, and how binlog avoids it

https://www.erathos.com/en/blog/mysql-cdc-to-bigquery
3•gpaulbagetti•21m ago•0 comments

iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=1ptvdtcm
547•K7PJP•16h ago•173 comments

MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

https://xusheng.dev/posts/reversing/mspaint_invisible_watermark/main/
791•ComputerGuru•23h ago•388 comments

OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users

https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/24/openai-restores-5-hour-codex-and-work-limits-for-chatgpt-plus-users/
73•MC995•2h ago•55 comments

Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2091894299289874926
933•tosh•23h ago•669 comments

How Universities Should Prepare Founders

https://paulgraham.com/prepare.html
189•gmays•12h ago•228 comments

SiFive's First Server Platform

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/sifives-first-server-platform
93•geerlingguy•11h ago•27 comments

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs

https://lectronz.com/u/lectronz/articles/how-europe-is-killing-makers-and-micro-entrepreneurs
1515•l-one-lone•1d ago•949 comments

What's new in Emacs 31.1

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-311
266•geospeck•1d ago•54 comments

The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

https://sf.thijs.gg/
542•centrosphere•21h ago•157 comments

The state of AI in 2026: On the road to ROI

https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-state-of-ai
21•swolpers•1h ago•28 comments

Moon (2024)

https://ciechanow.ski/moon/
230•simonebrunozzi•16h ago•38 comments

Anthropic tells staff to work from home due to possible security team strike

https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-san-francisco-staff-work-remote-office-security-strike-...
17•DGAP•39m ago•11 comments

Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage

https://github.com/murerkinn/bookshelf
138•arbayi•15h ago•51 comments

Where did all the public bathrooms go?

https://daily.jstor.org/where-did-all-the-public-bathrooms-go/
294•herbertl•21h ago•656 comments

Autostep (YC P26) Is Hiring AI/Fullstack Engineers and a Chief of Staff

https://app.dover.com/Autostep/careers/e9510e3b-a854-4e48-9e5d-c89796acaed4
1•adawg4•20h ago

Training AI to Paint with Code

https://surya.website/rling-qwen-to-paint-with-code
147•Tiberium•1d ago•16 comments

Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0344538
200•brandonb•23h ago•97 comments

Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward

https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/16/vintage-artificial-intelligence-before-it-got-awkward/
132•signor_bosco•17h ago•24 comments

Windows 95 released August 24, 1995

https://dfarq.homeip.net/happy-20th-birthday-to-windows-95/
21•giuliomagnifico•7h ago•1 comments

Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)

https://daily.jstor.org/was-modern-art-really-a-cia-psy-op/
121•neom•13h ago•203 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/