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Cherenkov Radiation - traveling faster than light

http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/what-is-cherenkov-radiation
15•andsoitis•38m ago•0 comments

Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin

https://shopify.engineering/back-to-native
1051•fnthawar2•19h ago•724 comments

Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/hands-off-my-cables/
516•Brajeshwar•17h ago•334 comments

Working with Git Worktrees in Magit

https://emacsredux.com/blog/2026/09/02/working-with-git-worktrees-in-magit/
44•srijan4•3d ago•8 comments

OpenAI Agents API

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agents-api/overview
254•aquir•13h ago•144 comments

The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac

https://auberon.xyz/blog/posts/deathray/
183•auberonedu•13h ago•111 comments

Stop making swap partitions–use swap files instead

https://gist.github.com/joshenders/c4960cec9c63a7b7d68ffa9543356c43
30•jenders•2d ago•20 comments

Nine coding harnesses vs. your laptop

https://nasutton.notion.site/Nine-coding-harnesses-vs-your-laptop-3d139990182b80d59fa3cf500f0450b...
93•nasutton12•10h ago•22 comments

The Gemini app is now available for Windows

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/gemini-app-now-on-windows/
45•quysala12•4h ago•33 comments

Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025)

https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Manipulating_Satellite_Photos_Now_Reveals_Ancient_Images
332•gumby•17h ago•54 comments

Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds

https://www.upsocl.com/en/16-year-old-mexican-student-creates-an-acoustic-fire-extinguisher-that-...
194•rguiscard•8h ago•72 comments

Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory

https://system76.com/workstations/thelio-mira-ai
103•jonifico•10h ago•80 comments

NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami

https://www.ntsb.gov:443/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20260909.aspx
102•mckn1ght•11h ago•174 comments

We Replaced MMAP with Io_uring in Our Rust Query Engine. It Got Slower

https://www.conviva.ai/resource/we-replaced-mmap-with-io_uring-in-our-rust-query-engine-it-got-sl...
37•rzk•3h ago•18 comments

More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math

https://mathstodon.xyz/@andreasthom/117240535270608201
803•pred_•1d ago•739 comments

Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra

https://cognition.com/blog/swe-2
410•seelos•17h ago•172 comments

Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom

https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/MusicTheory.html
222•aanet•16h ago•92 comments

GPT‑Live‑1 in the API

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live-1-in-the-api/
9•arittr•3h ago•5 comments

Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE

https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/src/branch/forgejo/release-notes-published/16.0.4.md
184•weierstass•17h ago•67 comments

Neki – Sharded Postgres

https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-neki
242•simon_weber•17h ago•131 comments

Proof of Capture: Apple Reference Image, but open source and using steganography

https://merybenavente.me/blog/proof-of-capture
106•merybenavente•13h ago•58 comments

Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/7/astra-why/
300•manojbajaj95•2h ago•223 comments

Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

https://rustfoundation.org/media/guest-post-rust-is-tier-1-language-at-microsoft/
673•mmastrac•19h ago•411 comments

So you want to use OpenRouter?

https://mmoustafa.com/blog/so-you-want-to-use-openrouter/
58•player85•2d ago•2 comments

Testing race conditions with mem access tracing and stack-based delay injection

https://projectzero.google/2026/09/maccconc-race-condition.html
7•mfrw•2d ago•0 comments

Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8m7lFQ3njk
180•tosh•4d ago•79 comments

Neijuan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neijuan
8•vermilingua•53m ago•1 comments

Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026

https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026
130•garo-pro•15h ago•194 comments

Exercise intensity is associated with cardiometabolic health

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(26)00405-2
95•qclibre22•5h ago•42 comments

US diesel hits record $6 a gallon on Iran supply shock

https://www.ft.com/content/ebfa69a3-323b-450d-8bfd-0b12e01d2a5b
23•mraniki•1h ago•15 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/