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Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France

https://quad9.net/news/blog/au-revoir-france/
570•farrokhi•4h ago•205 comments

eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business

https://emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-to-exit-global-ssl-tls-certificate-business
744•bo0tzz•5h ago•535 comments

Nvidia OpenShell

https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell
95•niemandhier•1h ago•42 comments

Show HN: Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices

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190•aghuang•4h ago•68 comments

Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany

https://www.taler.net/en/news/2026-13.html
109•dewey•3h ago•33 comments

Award-Winning AI Literature

https://jamesyu.org/award-winning-ai-literature/
21•jamesjyu•1h ago•4 comments

What's Getting Pwned

https://pwn.watch/
254•mrkd•5h ago•130 comments

Show HN: UI micro interactions prompts for AI

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19•elwingo1•57m ago•4 comments

What Is Gridifcation

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307•gumby•3d ago•149 comments

Jailbreaking the Switch 2

https://pepsipu.com/blog/2026-10-switch2-jailbreak-ns2jb/
584•ledoge•11h ago•209 comments

AI and the Enclosure of the Scientific Commons

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27251
20•jrepinc•1h ago•2 comments

A farewell to Arc browser

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141•suhdonghwi•3h ago•106 comments

Dungeon Generation in the Gnomish Mines of NetHack

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77•ibobev•3d ago•9 comments

AI analysis of CT scans finds 42.9% of patients have coronary inflammation

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28•brandonb•1h ago•18 comments

Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest

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262•wetwater•3h ago•180 comments

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21•maxilevi•45m ago•4 comments

Mini brain organoids 'reading' Braille key step towards biohybrid computing

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17•CharlesW•3h ago•4 comments

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172•molind•9h ago•35 comments

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4•chenglou•1d ago•1 comments

MPs moving to restrict gambling ads in Canada

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163•Teever•5h ago•69 comments

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41•storagebits•1d ago•12 comments

The Last Museum: Semantic search across 5.8M artworks from major museums

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73•surprisetalk•6h ago•25 comments

WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal

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455•alphax314•17h ago•145 comments

VMMouse for NT 3.x: QEMU/VMware mouse integration driver

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39•kiyouta•3d ago•6 comments

Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in "proof point" test

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/startup-taps-underwater-volcano-as-energy-source-in-proof...
104•wffurr•2d ago•40 comments

Security Disclosure

https://blog.railway.com/p/security-disclosure-wednesday-october-21st
566•passenger•21h ago•327 comments

The recently proposed o(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm [pdf]

https://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~davidharvey/research/subnlogn.pdf
295•craigcitro•16h ago•259 comments

Pentulive (Puppy Live) [video]

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61•NaOH•3d ago•9 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/