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How to feed a dictator

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/09/how-to-feed-a-dictator-film
74•Michelangelo11•1h ago•24 comments

Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023)

https://nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20230829-Think-Of-The-Children/
133•Bender•6h ago•77 comments

There are no instances in ATProto

https://overreacted.io/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto/
357•danabramov•12h ago•199 comments

Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school

https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/
479•ilreb•11h ago•334 comments

Surprising Economics of Load-Balanced Systems

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/08/06/erlang.html
53•KraftyOne•6h ago•15 comments

Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics

https://startupfortune.com/hyundai-takes-full-control-of-boston-dynamics-as-softbank-exits-for-32...
687•ck2•10h ago•318 comments

Aikido Code Audit

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/introducing-code-audit-find-complex-vulnerabilities-hidden-in-your-co...
21•ilreb•3h ago•8 comments

I used sound waves to make espresso

https://theconversation.com/i-used-sound-waves-to-make-espresso-it-could-cut-coffee-brewing-energ...
207•zeristor•6d ago•141 comments

Data Compression Explained

https://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html
6•mtdewcmu•3d ago•0 comments

Digital Printing of Arabic: explaining the problem

https://digitalorientalist.com/2017/08/21/digital-printing-of-arabic-explaining-the-problem/
26•a_t48•3d ago•2 comments

Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died

https://www.legacy.com/legacy/robert-bobby-prince-lll
232•pgrote•7h ago•27 comments

Hey, n00b, we didn't hire you to complete tasks

https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/hey-n00b-we-didnt-hire-you-to-complete
89•rrvsh•2h ago•47 comments

Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28

https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/project-valhalla-explained-how-a
546•philonoist•20h ago•337 comments

How many of the 170k English words do you know?

https://vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app/
248•abnry•13h ago•364 comments

Egyptian Fractions

https://blog.plover.com/math/egyptian-fractions.html
69•luu•4d ago•2 comments

DuckDB Internals Part 1

https://www.greybeam.ai/blog/duckdb-internals-part-1
440•marklit•3d ago•130 comments

John Jumper to join Anthropic

https://twitter.com/JohnJumperSci/status/2068001285173834106
79•artninja1988•9h ago•58 comments

Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?

42•amichail•4h ago•62 comments

RhinoCollab a plugin for real-time editing for Rhino 3D

https://rhinocollab.com
21•Ashxius•5d ago•4 comments

Telescope Ranchers

https://kottke.org/26/06/telescope-ranchers
107•bookofjoe•3d ago•42 comments

Big Banana Car

https://bigbananacar.com/
120•Bender•8h ago•71 comments

Court Records Should Be Free

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/court-records-should-be-free
266•hn_acker•9h ago•53 comments

A Perceptron in Age of Empires II

https://adewynter.github.io/notes/aoe2-circuits
30•EvgeniyZh•1d ago•11 comments

Zenzizenzizenzic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzizenzizenzic
78•gyosifov•5h ago•22 comments

A 1976 university experiment spun up the U.S. wind industry

https://spectrum.ieee.org/william-heronemus-wind-energy
73•pseudolus•4d ago•7 comments

Show HN: Metiq: a real time 3D globe for 100 public datasets

https://metiq.space
94•rakeda•3d ago•28 comments

Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research

https://blog.jxmo.io/p/zen-and-the-art-of-machine-learning
238•jxmorris12•4d ago•81 comments

Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk

https://dfdxlabs.com/research/2026/robotics-setup/
121•mplappert•1d ago•40 comments

Ten years of ClickHouse in open source

https://clickhouse.com/blog/open-source-10
281•saisrirampur•4d ago•72 comments

To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system

https://news.mit.edu/2026/to-study-how-chips-really-work-mit-researchers-built-their-own-operatin...
356•speckx•4d ago•54 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/