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After my dad died, we found the love letters

https://www.jenn.site/after-my-dad-died-we-found-the-love-letters/
308•eatitraw•4h ago•128 comments

A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure

https://sacbear.com/xfinity-wont-fix-internet/
358•vedmed•12h ago•163 comments

Almost all Collatz orbits attain almost bounded values

https://mathvideos.org/2023/terence-tao-almost-all-collatz-orbits-attain-almost-bounded-values/
47•measurablefunc•5d ago•6 comments

Unusual circuits in the Intel 386's standard cell logic

https://www.righto.com/2025/11/unusual-386-standard-cell-circuits.html
139•Stratoscope•10h ago•25 comments

GCC SC approves inclusion of Algol 68 Front End

https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2025-November/247020.html
145•edelsohn•11h ago•62 comments

The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting

https://kevinboone.me/fingerprinting.html
587•ingve•20h ago•370 comments

Maybe that's not liquid water on Mars after all

https://phys.org/news/2025-11-liquid-mars.html
12•howard941•38m ago•2 comments

We Induced Smells With Ultrasound

https://writetobrain.com/olfactory
534•exr0n•1d ago•141 comments

Deepnote (YC S19) is hiring engineers to build a better Jupyter notebook

https://deepnote.com/join-us
1•Equiet•1h ago

X.com Is Gonna Snitch You Out to the Public If You Use a VPN

https://www.vice.com/en/article/x-show-vpn-warning/
36•bookofjoe•51m ago•35 comments

Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on

https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-expands-total-coverage-for-ubuntu-lts-releases-to-15-years-w...
143•taubek•3d ago•71 comments

WorldGen – Text to Immersive 3D Worlds

https://www.meta.com/en-gb/blog/worldgen-3d-world-generation-reality-labs-generative-ai-research/
222•smusamashah•16h ago•71 comments

sit: Create StuffIt archives on Unix systems

https://github.com/thecloudexpanse/sit
13•classichasclass•6d ago•1 comments

NTSB report: Decryption of images from the Titan submersible camera [pdf] (2024)

https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=18741602&FileExtension=pdf&FileName=Underwater%2...
135•bmurray7jhu•13h ago•62 comments

Antic Magazine Interviews Alan Reeve, the Creator of the Diamond OS (1990)

https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/antic-magazine-interviews-alan-reeve
8•rbanffy•1w ago•1 comments

Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay

https://forty.news
320•foxbarrington•18h ago•134 comments

The Boring Part of Bell Labs

https://elizabethvannostrand.substack.com/p/the-boring-part-of-bell-labs
125•AcesoUnderGlass•3d ago•20 comments

Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-buried-causal-evidence-socia...
410•pseudolus•12h ago•159 comments

CERN Council reviews feasibility study for a next-generation collider

https://home.cern/news/press-release/accelerators/cern-council-reviews-feasibility-study-next-gen...
35•elashri•1w ago•7 comments

`satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword (2024)

https://sjer.red/blog/2024-12-21/
186•surprisetalk•4d ago•171 comments

$1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux

https://github.com/nadimkobeissi/16iax10h-linux-sound-saga
269•rany_•1w ago•119 comments

The 1957 “Spaghetti-Grows-on-Trees” Hoax

https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/the-1957-spaghetti-grows-on-trees-hoax.html
40•PaulHoule•1w ago•21 comments

MCP Apps just dropped (OpenAI and Anthropic collab) and I think this is huge

http://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2025-11-21-mcp-apps/
90•mercury24aug•10h ago•60 comments

Pixel Art Tips for Programmers

https://jslegenddev.substack.com/p/5-pixel-art-tips-for-programmers-3d6
124•ibobev•2d ago•27 comments

Show HN: Build the habit of writing meaningful commit messages

https://github.com/arpxspace/smartcommit
81•Aplikethewatch•16h ago•106 comments

Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal

https://windowsreport.com/google-revisits-jpeg-xl-in-chromium-after-earlier-removal/
121•eln1•7h ago•41 comments

Markdown is holding you back

https://newsletter.bphogan.com/archive/issue-45-markdown-is-holding-you-back/
145•zdw•17h ago•103 comments

China reaches energy milestone by "breeding" uranium from thorium

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3331312/china-reaches-energy-independence-milesto...
307•surprisetalk•19h ago•257 comments

Show HN: A tool to safely migrate GitHub Actions workflows to Ubuntu-slim runner

https://github.com/fchimpan/gh-slimify
59•r4mimu•1w ago•3 comments

The realities of being a pop star

https://itscharlibb.substack.com/p/the-realities-of-being-a-pop-star
258•lovestory•19h ago•173 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•7mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•7mo 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•7mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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/