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Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data

https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/14370
465•sidgarimella•1h ago•144 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/3/qwen-can-interpret-model-weights/
177•theanonymousone•1h ago•46 comments

Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time

https://blog.nns.ee/2026/11/02/renault-hack/
337•xx_ns•1d ago•119 comments

Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot

https://neufangled.com/
57•nharada•2h ago•19 comments

Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/fujifilm-to-boost-tape-production-5x-as-ai-fuels-archivin...
259•bookofjoe•1d ago•100 comments

Mac at Any Scale

https://namespace.so/blog/mac-at-any-scale
190•anner_•4h ago•96 comments

OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats

260•user052919•4h ago•81 comments

Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/trump-admin-sues-utah-to-save-kalshi-from-the-states-...
237•rbanffy•3h ago•168 comments

The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading

https://honnibal.dev/blog/astra-read-write-misleading
755•syllogism•6h ago•173 comments

Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring EMs

https://www.ashbyhq.com/careers?ashby_jid=695b1ce6-c375-4fad-94ef-61b50a3fbd28&utm_source=hn
1•abhikp•2h ago

USDB: Scaling Storage for Next-Generation Recommender Systems at ByteDance

https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.02618
27•1equalsequals1•2h ago•3 comments

Writing seen in PHerc. 306B, for the first time in 2000 years

https://scrollprize.substack.com/p/writing-seen-in-pherc-306b-for-the
79•benbreen•23h ago•11 comments

Gitbook Breached

80•punchmesan•2h ago•22 comments

Antimony: CAD Software Evolved from Lisp Machines and Not Drafting Tables (2015)

https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/antimony/3/
65•pmkary•1d ago•18 comments

Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996?

https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2026/algorithmic-improvements-chess.html
345•markusw•11h ago•151 comments

Study estimates 75% of NFL players who died over 15-year span had CTE

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/study-estimates-75-nfl-players-died-15-year-span-may-c...
154•gmays•3h ago•98 comments

Tiny Basic for Arduino

https://dilshan.github.io/tiny-basic/
43•AlexeyBrin•3h ago•10 comments

Queen of the Bagel Business

https://thehustle.co/originals/the-unlikely-queen-of-the-bagel-business
12•qi104104•1d ago•0 comments

How to write comparison content that doesn't age like milk

https://posthog.com/blog/comparison-content-guide
11•rbaudibert•1h ago•3 comments

Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one

https://blog.bear.app/2026/11/bear-turns-10-and-it-still-feels-like-day-one/
76•psxuaw•3h ago•48 comments

Show HN: HackerChurn – which SaaS tools HN wants to cancel

https://hissingkitty.com/hacker-churn
48•drewlem•3h ago•21 comments

Handles are the better pointers (2018)

https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html
29•vinhnx•4h ago•14 comments

Practice speaking Japanese with real YouTube videos, graded line by line

https://jivx.com/yt
38•momentmaker•4h ago•13 comments

Katamari Damacy but it's The Met collection

https://katamari.vaguespac.es/
133•thebigship•1d ago•42 comments

Why Don't We Live in an Art Nouveau World?

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/16/why-don-t-we-life-in-an-art-nouveau-world
86•shcallaway•1d ago•82 comments

I use AI (Oct 2026)

https://ben.stolovitz.com/posts/how-use-ai-oct-2026/
8•citelao•1h ago•3 comments

Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/google-search-schools-restrict-ai.html
316•ceejayoz•3h ago•262 comments

Embedding boolean circuits in a neural network

https://edwardbenson.com/2026/10/embedding-boolean-circuits-in-a-neural-network
18•eob•2d ago•5 comments

Toit v2.0.0

https://toit.io/blog/toit-v2-0-0/
202•floitsch•2d ago•67 comments

Exploring the Legacy of Image Club Graphics

https://blog.somnolescent.net/2026/02/exploring-the-legacy-of-image-club-graphics/
6•tobr•1d ago•0 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/