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Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

https://www.kimi.ai/blog/kimi-k3-1-pro
800•Jowsey•11h ago•484 comments

Twelve years of distributed SQLite

https://philipotoole.com/twelve-years-of-distributed-sqlite/
82•otoolep•3h ago•8 comments

Apple Music 404 Not Found

https://music.apple.com/this-url-doesnt-exist
665•frizlab•16h ago•211 comments

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
1312•sohkamyung•1d ago•228 comments

Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech

https://block.xyz/dessa
307•dsr12•9h ago•114 comments

CVE Tracker

https://cve.0xosprey.com/
135•Group_B•7h ago•55 comments

Bringing uv and ty together

https://astral.sh/blog/uv-ty-integration
70•Ravencentric•3d ago•18 comments

Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone

https://blog.calif.io/p/iphone
794•pavel_lishin•12h ago•526 comments

The Quake Fan who built the map editor everybody uses

https://funcarena.com/articles/the-quake-fan-who-built-the-map-editor-everybody-uses
32•klaussilveira•1d ago•2 comments

The Real Kevin Bacon

https://pudding.cool/2026/10/kevin-bacon/
268•xnx•3d ago•75 comments

Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/canadians-are-running-out-time-oppose-dangerous-c-22-survei...
371•hn_acker•1d ago•203 comments

One Man's Pan Am 747 Replica [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAFwHGGfPz4
10•Teever•7h ago•0 comments

C vs. C#: racing VLC's Gaussian blur

https://martinfinkel.com/blog/gaussian-blur-c-vs-csharp/
44•martz•2d ago•1 comments

The past, present, and future share a show floor at Pinball Expo 2026

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/10/the-past-present-and-future-share-a-show-floor-at-pinball-...
20•civicpivot•2d ago•3 comments

How close can pure functional programming get to C?

https://rtfeldman.com/fp-vs-c
4•stmonty•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Corgi, a helpful {agent, terminal} multiplexer

https://corgi.computer/
60•eiopa•9h ago•13 comments

Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines

https://www.jefftk.com/p/air-purifiers-as-white-noise-machines
90•luu•11h ago•102 comments

Alzheimer's breakthrough: 2 hrs of sleep restored without clearing brain plaques

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261018084421.htm
52•amichail•3h ago•12 comments

UUIDv7: Timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities

https://alexsci.com/blog/uuidv7-is-weird/
118•ibobev•12h ago•102 comments

Evolving Threat: http2shell is an RCE in Node, Python, and more

https://nitter.click/AikidoSecurity/status/2113759110625906950?__galadriel=lPmlGl9id4oAd5UeBwMhlY...
128•cowlevel•5h ago•68 comments

A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents

https://danielball.com/notes/ai_image_generation.html
9•westsmith•3d ago•4 comments

A Bicycle Journey Across Brazil to Find a Vanishing Savanna

https://e360.yale.edu/features/2026-film-contest-second-place-cerrado
36•throwaway2037•2d ago•9 comments

Elon Musk Acquires $1B Stake in CNN's Parent Company

https://symby.com/news?_cid=101605177&preferredLanguage=en
7•Alien1Being•13m ago•2 comments

Rise of collagen-eating microbes may help explain gaps in the fossil record

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/rise-of-collagen-eating-microbes-may-help-explain-gaps-in-the...
23•gmays•3d ago•0 comments

Rune 1.3: adds TypeScript, a Helix editor, Kitty graphics and OSC-7501

https://rune.build/blog/rune-1-3-release
45•ernestrc•9h ago•11 comments

How is music possible

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/music
95•rafaelc•12h ago•69 comments

Is this the new cyber normal?

https://drew.silcock.dev/blog/is-this-the-new-cyber-normal/
151•drewsberry•17h ago•168 comments

Animations for System Builders

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/10/23/animations.html
50•KraftyOne•11h ago•3 comments

DNS: A Replacement for Finger

https://altchan.org/sh/42
34•Bender•9h ago•25 comments

A whirlwind tour of systemd-nspawn containers (2025)

https://quantum5.ca/2025/03/22/whirlwind-tour-of-systemd-nspawn-containers/
36•ibobev•8h ago•7 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/