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GPT-6 Sol and Luna

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-sol-and-luna/
1078•OfficialTurkey•5h ago•562 comments

Claude Opus 5.5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5
1114•km144•7h ago•770 comments

'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees

https://www.404media.co/we-hacked-the-fbi-hackers-say-they-have-data-on-all-fbi-employees/
319•spenvo•6h ago•209 comments

OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005

https://www.cryptocellar.org/bgac/the-mvueh-break.html
536•sohkamyung•10h ago•354 comments

Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived

https://foxscript.org/
133•boredjohnny•2h ago•97 comments

ReBarUEFI: Resizable BAR for almost any UEFI system

https://github.com/xCuri0/ReBarUEFI
32•nateb2022•1d ago•11 comments

SAML: A fractal of bad design

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/09/21/saml-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
129•aray07•4h ago•73 comments

Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/claude-opus-5-5
216•theanonymousone•7h ago•62 comments

Unreal Agent

https://unreallabs.ai/blog/unreal-agent/
115•trollied•5h ago•68 comments

WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE

https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-7hp8-65ch-5whp
146•vntok•7h ago•77 comments

Native apps written in TypeScript and CSS

https://github.com/geastack/examples
68•arbayi•4h ago•19 comments

How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/18/how-did-amd-ryzen-get-50-faster-in-two-years/
183•ibobev•4d ago•60 comments

MUNI Heritage Weekend in San Francisco

https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2026-09-20-muni-heritage-weekend/
149•plun9•2d ago•37 comments

Show HN: JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models

https://benchmarkheaven.com/jev-models
53•florianstandhar•10h ago•8 comments

Markdown in /src

https://htmx.org/essays/markdown-in-src/
77•perrygeo•1d ago•36 comments

The current balance of power in open models

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/the-current-balance-of-power-in-open
15•gmays•1h ago•3 comments

OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev

https://arcturus-labs.com/blog/2026/09/21/will-openai-eat-jevs-lunch/
249•JohnBerryman•9h ago•186 comments

Show HN: Training a model to identify AI web content from structure alone

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15369
37•jochenmadler•10h ago•8 comments

16-bit Intel 8088 chip (c. 1985)

https://allpoetry.com/16-bit-Intel-8088-chip
102•rbanffy•7h ago•13 comments

George Lucas Returns to Earth, Bearing Gifts

https://commonedge.org/george-lucas-returns-to-earth-bearing-gifts/
64•surprisetalk•1d ago•35 comments

Launch HN: Coverage Cat (YC S22) – Umbrella insurance via your personal agent

https://www.coveragecat.com/
41•botacode•6h ago•22 comments

People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-18/to-quit-vaping-some-are-starting-to-smoke
87•alephnerd•22h ago•76 comments

Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-iran-school-attack/
347•devonnull•4h ago•178 comments

The JavaScript Midlife Crisis

https://maroun-baydoun.com/blog/javascript-midlife-crisis/
33•maroun-baydoun•3h ago•11 comments

The trouble with 'ntile()'

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2026-09-20_the-trouble-with-ntile/
16•luu•1d ago•0 comments

Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy

https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/i-wish-apple-would-just-stop-that-crap-apple-has-added-pe...
578•MC995•9h ago•437 comments

There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117299954135808210
252•Cider9986•6h ago•105 comments

Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-openai-solve-the-wrong-navier-stokes-problem/
90•tomjakubowski•23h ago•42 comments

An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord

https://discord.com/blog/safer-for-teens-same-discord-for-adults
99•meetpateltech•5h ago•54 comments

Rabbit Hole: Minimum L-seams

https://www.fractalkitty.com/rabbit-hole-minimum-l-seams/
21•evakhoury•5d ago•6 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/