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Our position on open-weights models

https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models
647•surprisetalk•7h ago•893 comments

Using an open model feels surprisingly good

https://matthewsaltz.com/blog/using-an-open-model-feels-surprisingly-good/
125•msaltz•2h ago•48 comments

A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review

https://fermisense.com/when-machines-take-the-wheel/
73•ilreb•2h ago•22 comments

Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench

https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/benchmarki...
199•dhorthy•6h ago•51 comments

Astronauts describe persistent 'observer' sensation after 6 month missions

https://spacedaily.com/sd-v-astronauts-returning-from-six-month-missions-describe-a-persistent-ob...
140•zdw•5h ago•70 comments

Why do we think we understand the world more than we actually do?

https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/the-illusion-of-explanatory-depth
9•rramadass•1h ago•4 comments

RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

https://gpusolutions.net/rbservices/graphics-card-upgrade/
67•wslh•3d ago•29 comments

EYG: A Programming Language for Humans

https://crowdhailer.me/2026-06-08/a-programming-language-for-humans/
40•crowdhailer•2h ago•16 comments

Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/07/19/observing-gos-garbage-collector-old-and-new.html
188•matheusmoreira•2d ago•18 comments

Residential Proxies Are a National Security Threat

https://jacob.gold/posts/residential-proxies-are-a-national-security-threat/
45•joshbetz•3h ago•41 comments

DConf 2026 in London

https://dconf.org/2026/index.html
67•teleforce•5h ago•28 comments

C/C++ projects packaged for Zig

https://github.com/allyourcodebase
43•jcbhmr•5h ago•23 comments

The age of token efficiency, the age of libraries

https://golemui.com/blog/the-age-of-token-efficiency/
5•handfuloflight•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download

https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/yap
37•pancomplex•10h ago•9 comments

Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals

https://www.rise-reforming.com
65•george_rose25•9h ago•30 comments

Vehicle Motion Cues

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/iphone-comfortably-riding-a-vehicle-iph55564cb22/ios
36•Austin_Conlon•3h ago•17 comments

An Uncomplicated Man

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n14/emily-wilson/an-uncomplicated-man
22•andsoitis•2h ago•4 comments

Three Theses on the Literacy Crisis

https://trevoraleo.substack.com/p/three-theses-on-the-literacy-crisis
33•samclemens•2d ago•26 comments

Glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol

https://cen.acs.org/materials/adhesives/glue-bonds-nonstick-surfaces-wipes-clean/104/web/2026/07
163•gmays•4d ago•93 comments

Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions

https://gregoryszorc.com/docs/python-build-standalone/main/
128•jcbhmr•10h ago•29 comments

The Burau representation of the braid group is faithful for n = 4

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05283
29•wglb•5h ago•9 comments

A Dying Art: The last of the morticians

https://harpers.org/archive/2026/08/a-dying-art-john-semley-mortuary-sciences-competition/
13•Petiver•4d ago•1 comments

Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages

https://gpuopen.com/learn/ray-tracing-massive-amounts-animated-geometry/
88•LorenDB•4d ago•11 comments

Securing Services with Rootless Containers

https://blog.coderspirit.xyz/blog/2026/07/06/securing-services-with-rootless-containers/
77•speckx•4d ago•25 comments

Why I joined Blacksmith to work on storage again

https://www.blacksmith.sh/blog/why-i-joined-blacksmith-to-work-on-storage-again
7•piobio•3d ago•0 comments

Some combinatorial applications of spacefilling curves

https://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~jjb/research/mow/mow.html
28•shraiwi•2d ago•1 comments

UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring remote AE's to help make buildings cheaper

https://up.codes/careers?utm_source=HN
1•Old_Thrashbarg•12h ago

A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/police-missed-one-underscore-and-sent-the-wrong-man-t...
219•quantified•6h ago•111 comments

Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise

https://nypost.com/2026/07/26/us-news/netflix-exec-goes-ballistic-after-being-fired-for-stunning-...
234•softwaredoug•5h ago•187 comments

Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API

https://telnyx.com/release-notes/kimi-k3-telnyx-inference
34•fionaattelnyx•6h ago•14 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/