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ISBN Visualization Showing 99_959_000 books

https://annas-archive.li/isbn-visualization/
39•simon04•1h ago•6 comments

Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files

https://www.jmail.world
930•lukeigel•15h ago•178 comments

New mathematical framework reshapes debate over simulation hypothesis

https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/new-mathematical-framework-reshapes-debate-over-simulati...
11•Gooblebrai•54m ago•2 comments

Ruby website redesigned

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
133•psxuaw•5h ago•30 comments

Backing up Spotify

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html
1335•vitplister•17h ago•437 comments

Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks

https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-complete-long-tasks/
150•spicypete•8h ago•97 comments

Indoor tanning makes youthful skin much older on a genetic level

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/12/431206/indoor-tanning-makes-youthful-skin-much-older-genetic-level
74•SanjayMehta•6h ago•31 comments

Inca Stone Masonry

https://www.earthasweknowit.com/pages/inca_construction
49•jppope•4h ago•11 comments

Isengard in Oxford

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/isengard-in-oxford/
61•lermontov•6h ago•5 comments

Go ahead, self-host Postgres

https://pierce.dev/notes/go-ahead-self-host-postgres#user-content-fn-1
552•pavel_lishin•20h ago•323 comments

Claude in Chrome

https://claude.com/chrome
216•ianrahman•14h ago•110 comments

Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4qzgvxxgvo
250•1659447091•16h ago•85 comments

Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/ErrorsShouldRequireFixing
391•todsacerdoti•4d ago•249 comments

Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates

https://www.a1k0n.net/2025/12/19/tiny-tapeout-demo.html
357•a1k0n•19h ago•51 comments

OpenSCAD is kinda neat

https://nuxx.net/blog/2025/12/20/openscad-is-kinda-neat/
256•c0nsumer•18h ago•177 comments

Big GPUs don't need big PCs

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/big-gpus-dont-need-big-pcs
214•mikece•18h ago•79 comments

The Uncertain Origins of Aspirin

https://www.asimov.press/p/aspirin
10•dearwell•4d ago•2 comments

Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize "cybercrime" takedowns to silence critics

https://haveibeenflocked.com/news/cyble-downtime
470•_a9•11h ago•79 comments

Getting serial port output on modern Macs

https://gist.github.com/dhinakg/3fcd9ad43c82c96964b4f64eb05e6a5e
6•walterbell•5d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Open-source Markdown research tool written in Rust – Ekphos

https://github.com/hanebox/ekphos
19•haneboxx•4d ago•4 comments

From devastation to wonder as Kangaroo Island bushfires lead to cave discoveries

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-13/more-than-150-caves-discovered-in-ki-after-devastating-bus...
64•speckx•5d ago•12 comments

Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning (2011)

https://norvig.com/chomsky.html
75•atomicnature•5d ago•54 comments

Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN

https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com?year=2025
206•hubraumhugo•22h ago•118 comments

Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use

https://www.thegamer.com/clair-obscur-expedition-33-indie-game-awards-goty-stripped-ai-use/
72•anigbrowl•4h ago•137 comments

Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal

https://blog.jcz.dev/gemini-3-pro-vs-25-pro-in-pokemon-crystal
291•alphabetting•4d ago•87 comments

I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)

https://www.apalrd.net/posts/2023/network_ipv6/
148•mahirsaid•17h ago•278 comments

Why do people leave comments on OpenBenches?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/why-do-people-leave-comments-on-openbenches/
174•sedboyz•20h ago•15 comments

What's New in Python 3.15

https://docs.python.org/3.15/whatsnew/3.15.html
108•azhenley•3d ago•33 comments

Italian bears living near villages have evolved to be smaller and less agressive

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-italian-villages-evolved-smaller-aggressive.html
95•wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB•5d ago•58 comments

Make the eyes go away

https://hexeditreality.com/posts/make-the-eyes-go-away/
10•llllm•3d 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•8mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•8mo 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•8mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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/