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Announcing three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics

https://openai.com/index/building-scientific-understanding-with-academic-communities/
388•jonluca•3h ago•148 comments

The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]

https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/The-Exponential-Time-Hypothesis-is-False-Octob...
243•vok•3h ago•99 comments

Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/building-reasoning-models
545•sgiannopoulos•10h ago•81 comments

Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model (155 responses)

https://blog.cloudflare.com/kv-cache-exposure-remediation/
59•wondersky•2h ago•11 comments

Type Server Protocol

https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/blob/main/docs/tsp/type-server-protocol.md
188•adamnemecek•6h ago•136 comments

Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11

https://blog.enlyth.com/posts/oldest-windows-gui-app-win-11/
275•enlyth•7h ago•177 comments

A Printer Printing onto Paper

https://twitter.com/macrofying/status/2112904628509528219
49•MrBuddyCasino•3d ago•11 comments

CSS-Tricks has a new owner

https://css-tricks.com/css-tricks-has-a-new-owner/
375•edent•9h ago•88 comments

LISPy things you can do in 64K bytes of core (2019)

https://t3x.org/lisp64k/index.html
20•andsoitis•1d ago•1 comments

Nietzschian Debugger

https://github.com/DilawarShafiq/nietzschian-debugger
126•dilawargopang•7h ago•40 comments

GPT-6.1 Terra

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-terra/
488•meetpateltech•7h ago•310 comments

Show HN: Hob - Open-source, on device alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT

https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/hob
109•pancomplex•8h ago•25 comments

A Man from the Future: Why Johnny Can't Stop Abstracting

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-man-from-future-why-johnny-cant.html
112•aray07•7h ago•59 comments

Anthropic S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026067168/anthropicpbc-sx1.htm
1462•SiNTEx•12h ago•1431 comments

Is PHP Running on Your ColdFusion Server? How to Check, and Remove It

https://www.gregoryalexander.com/blog/2026/10/23/is-php-quietly-running-on-your-coldfusion-server...
16•rmason•2h ago•8 comments

Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261023-how-solar-became-bigger-than-nuclear
118•geox•9h ago•220 comments

New iPad mini

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-gives-ipad-mini-its-biggest-update-ever/
127•soheilpro•11h ago•380 comments

SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller

https://shraiwi.com/blog/simd-fast-esp32s3/
169•zdw•1d ago•53 comments

Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-offers-mass-buyouts-for-roughly-a-quart...
744•doctorzook•9h ago•655 comments

Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024)

https://humantransit.org/2024/12/one-of-the-greatest-inventions-in-the-history-of-human-transport...
261•skadamat•4d ago•136 comments

Diamond Transistor

https://www.df.com/diamond-transistor
123•Gravityloss•3d ago•65 comments

Pharo 14

https://pharo.org/news/2026-10-26-Pharo14Release.html
238•xkriva11•13h ago•63 comments

Websites Should Be Printable

https://brennenputh.me/blog/printable-websites/
263•bagatelle•14h ago•172 comments

Sigma Says the Compact, Modular FP2 Is the Ultimate Hybrid Camera

https://petapixel.com/2026/10/22/sigma-says-the-compact-modular-fp2-is-the-ultimate-hybrid-camera/
40•thm•3d ago•57 comments

Native Prometheus Integration with Nginx

https://categorica.io/blog/2026.10.16_nginx-stats-prometheus/
32•foxhill•3d ago•9 comments

The EPA Is Quietly Killing Its Web Archive

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/10/epa-online-archive-deletion-zeldin-camp-lejeune-t...
230•robtherobber•6h ago•42 comments

In Context [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5eO7BNyJao
7•adityaathalye•3d ago•0 comments

Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM

https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/fixing-tool-call-accuracy-in-vllm
145•coffeemug•12h ago•64 comments

Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale

https://blocks.manifold3d.ch/
459•theanonymousone•16h ago•214 comments

Magic state cultivation on a superconducting quantum processor

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13908
12•kheal•5h ago•1 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/